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The New Jesuits
Most of them share Latin Mass as a childhood memory,
the priest with his back to the congregation. But for all
of them, having been ordained in the aftermath of the
Second Vatican Council, when they’ve presided over
Mass themselves, it has always been facing the congregation and in the local language, as priests presiding
among, rather than presiding over.
left-to-right: Rev. Gerard McKeon, S.J., ’76; Rev. James Miracky,
S.J.; Rev. Paul Nienaber, S.J.; Rev. William Stempsey, S.J.; Rev.
Brian Linnane, S.J.; Rev. William Clark, S.J.; Rev. Thomas
Worcester, S.J., photographed in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel by
Patrick O’Connor.
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Executive Editor: Katharine Buckley McNamara ’81
Editor: Jack O’Connell ’81
Capital Campaign Editor: Joyce O’Connor Davidson
Designer: Molly Fang
Editorial Assistant: Pam Reponen
Photography: Colleen Totten-Amann ’92, John Buckingham,
Allan Dines, John Gillooly, Patrick O’Connor,
Dan Vaillancourt, The Holy Cross Archives.
Photo of the Choruses of the Worcester
Consortium by Christine Peterson, courtesy of
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Inc.
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And an Equation Runs
Through It
Designed by Catherine
Roberts, an associate professor
in the department of mathematics and computer science,
the Grand Canyon River Trip
Simulator is a computer program that will help park
managers regulate rafting
traffic on the Colorado River.
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A Dialogue on the Monologues
The off-Broadway play, The Vagina Monologues, by
playwright/activist Eve Ensler, is intended to raise
public consciousness about violence against women,
while also raising funds to help the victims of such
crimes.
Departments
News from the Hill
Book Notes
GAA
Athletics
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Innovation and Experimentation
Maura Nelson ’02 is majoring in environmental
studies through the Center for Interdisciplinary and
Special Studies (CISS). With the help of faculty
mentors, she has designed her multidisciplinary
course of study.
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An Investment in the Life of the Campus
Seniority has its privileges. And for Holy Cross students entering their fourth year in September 2003,
that privilege will include first-of-its-kind on-campus residential living.
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Back to School: For
His Sons’ Sake
Graduating senior Ed
Dilworth has a longer list of
professional accomplishments
than his peers in the Class of
2002.
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Lift High the Cross
The campaign section
Class Notes
In Memoriam
Road Signs
Calendar of Events
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Letter from the Editor
I
am writing this on the afternoon of Friday, May 24, a beautiful spring day in Worcester. I have just returned from the
College’s 156th Commencement exercises (which we will
cover in the summer issue of HCM). Graduation Day never
gets old. From the moment one hears the band play the first
notes of “Pomp and Circumstance,” through the recessional
and the shower of mortar boards, it’s a festive, joyful occasion.
No matter how many times you watch, it’s hard not to be
moved by the sight of parents and children, embracing or
examining diplomas, overwhelmed by pride and thankfulness.
Commencement also marks the end of the academic year.
In a matter of hours, the campus transforms from a circus to a
ghost town. And pulling out of the deserted parking lot at the
end of the day, it’s not unusual to reflect upon the high- and
low-points of the year that has just concluded. The 2001-02
year on the Hill brought both success and tragedy. When we
dedicated Smith Hall on Sept. 7, we had no forewarning of
the terror that would follow just four days later.
From the “Lift High the Cross” campaign kickoff on Nov.
10 to the Kentucky game on March 21, from inaugural conference of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture to the
return to campus of our own U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins
’63, from the success of our Watson and Fulbright recipients
to the tragedy of a student death, these last nine months were
a roller coaster ride. But, as has been the case throughout
Holy Cross’ history, two things make all the joys and sorrows,
the triumphs and disappointments bearable: the College’s
sense of community and tradition.
That sense of community and tradition is evident in the
men pictured on the cover of this issue. These are the “new”
Jesuits on campus and, as you will read in their profiles, they
encompass both the past and the future. They are bringing the
Society of Jesus into the next millennium while remaining
fully conscious of, and enmeshed in the unique spirituality of
the Jesuit Order.
As our newest alumni begin their postgraduate lives, and as
our faculty and students prepare for a season of research,
work, travel and revitalization, Holy Cross Magazine wishes all
our readers a safe and restful summer.
News from the Hill
Sanctae Crucis Awards presented
Front, left-to-right: Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., Julie A. Halpin ’84, Marcia S. Lee ’93, Joseph A. Bodanza ’49. Back, left-toright: John C. Gannon ’66, James J. O’Connor Sr. ’58, Frank Vellaccio
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oly Cross honored five
outstanding alumni/ae at
the fifth annual Sanctae
Crucis Awards ceremony
on May 3. The awards are the highest
non-degree recognition bestowed by
the College on an alumnus or alumna.
The College’s Mission Statement is the
foundation for the Sanctae Crucis
Awards, which are presented in three
categories: Award for Distinguished
Professional Achievement, Award for
Outstanding Community Service, and
Outstanding Young Alumnus/Alumna
Award.
This year’s recipients are:
Distinguished Professional
Achievement category, John C.
Gannon ’66 and James J. O’Connor
Sr. ’58. Outstanding Community
Service category, Joseph A. Bodanza
’49. Outstanding Young
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Alumnus/Alumna Award, Julie A.
Halpin ’84 and Marcia S. Lee ’93.
John C. Gannon ’66 is the former
chairman of the National Intelligence
Council and former deputy director
for intelligence at the Central
Intelligence Agency. Having served in
the most senior analytical positions at
the CIA and in the intelligence community, Gannon is now the vice chairman of the Intellibridge Corporation,
a Washington, D.C.,-based provider of
customized, Internet-based intelligence
and advisory solutions for major corporations and government organizations.
James J. O’Connor Sr. ’58 is retired
chairman and chief executive officer of
Unicom Corporation and its subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison
Company in Chicago. He held the
position for 20 years and has devoted a
lifetime of commitment to his com2
munity. O’Connor currently serves as
chair of the Big Shoulders Fund of the
Archdiocese of Chicago, raising $117
million for inner city Catholic schools.
Joseph A. Bodanza ’49 of
Leominster, Mass., has spent the last
six years bringing physically impaired
Vietnamese children to Massachusetts
for medical treatment.
Julie A. Halpin ’84 is founder and
chief executive officer of the Geppetto
Group, a leader in advertising for children and young adults, located in New
York City.
Marcia S. Lee ’93, of Washington,
D.C., is the staff director for the
Senate Caucus on International
Narcotics Control and a senior advisor
for drug policy and research with the
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on
Crime and Drugs.
College hosts symposium on
“The Anatomy of Evil”
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n April 11-13, the College’s Center for Religion,
Ethics and Culture sponsored a symposium, “The
Anatomy of Evil.” Posing bold questions about the
nature of evil and the spectrum of human responses
to evil, the symposium brought together a group of distinguished
panelists who addressed these questions in papers, panel discussions and roundtable dialogues.
In addition to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the symposium
focused on other horrific events of the 20th century, such as the
World Wars, the Nazi concentration camps, the Soviet Gulag and
the Chinese “Great Leap Forward.” Participants discussed how
such dehumanizing events have forced society to come to terms
with the reality of evil, and how we are to cope with this realization.
The symposium opened with a lecture, “Lamentations and
Losses: From New York to Kabul,” by Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J.,
scholar and peace activist known for his stance against militarism.
The keynote speech was given by Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of
the magazine, Tikkun, and author of The Politics of Meaning and
Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul. Lerner is
considered to be one of contemporary America’s most important
political and spiritual thinkers.
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Holy Cross part of Keck Foundation Grant to
develop computational science curriculum
H
oly Cross has been named
one of eight institutions
that will share in a W. M.
Keck Foundation Grant
designed to develop and implement
educational materials for an undergraduate curriculum in computational
science. Along with Capital University,
The Ohio State University, Pomona
College, San Diego State University,
Wofford College, the San Diego
Supercomputer Center and Harvey
Mudd College, Holy Cross will use the
$400,000 grant to establish the Keck
Undergraduate Computational Science
Educational Consortium. The forma-
tion of the consortium will enable its
member institutions to address a shortcoming of most traditional undergraduate curricula that have yet to integrate
effectively the fields of mathematics
and computer science with the sciences. Educational materials produced
by Capital and its partners in the consortium will be made available to other
colleges and universities.
Computational science is an emerging and rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that integrates computing,
mathematical modeling and visualization to solve problems in the physical,
natural and behavioral sciences,
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finance and engineering. The visualization techniques also serve as an excellent teaching tool for understanding
mathematical and scientific concepts.
The use of high-performance computing serves as the secondary theme.
The W. M. Keck Foundation is one
of the nation’s largest philanthropic
organizations. Established in 1954 by
the late William Myron Keck, founder
of The Superior Oil Co., the foundation supports science, engineering and
medical programs and encourages multidisciplinary projects and multi-college cooperative science ventures.
Commencement update
H
oly Cross graduated 664 men and women during the College’s 156th
Commencement on May 24.
Billy Collins, the United States Poet Laureate, delivered the principal address
and received an honorary degree at the exercises. Honorary degrees were also
given to: Dennis L. Budd, retired chief of the Worcester (Mass.) Fire
Department, and Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a clinical psychologist and former member of the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
The valedictory address was delivered by Marianne S. Bellino ’02, of
Washington, D.C., a visual arts history/architectural studies double major and a
member of the College Honors Program.
Holy Cross Magazine will carry full coverage of Commencement in its summer
issue.
Tenure Decisions Announced
This spring, seven faculty members have been promoted to the rank of
associate professor with tenure.
Nancy E. Andrews, of the classics department, earned a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley
College, and both a master’s and
Ph.D. from Harvard University.
A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, Andrews has
served on the Committee on
Faculty Affairs and also as president of the College’s chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa. She is the recipNancy E. Andrews
ient of the Harvard-Danforth
Award for Distinction in Teaching. Andrews is author of
“Philosophical Satire in Callimachus’ Aetia Prologue,”
Hellinistica Groningana III
(1998). She is a resident of
Worcester.
ty since 1996, Ashe has served in the College’s Odyssey program for the past three years and has held the post of director of the African-American Studies Program since 1999. A
past Holy Cross Summer Research Fellow, he is author of
the forthcoming From Within the Frame: Storytelling in
African-American Fiction (New York: Routledge). Ashe
resides in Worcester.
Francisco Gago-Jover, of the
Spanish department, received a
bachelor’s degree from the
University of Valladolid in Spain,
and both a master’s and Ph.D.
from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. A member
of the Holy Cross community
since 1996, Gago-Jover has
served as both a judicial and faculty advisor. He has received two
Francisco Gago-Jover
Hewlett-Mellon grants to develop course materials at Holy
Cross. Gago-Jover is author of Arte de bien morir y Breve confesionario (1999), and editor of the Dictionary of the Old
Spanish Language. Gago-Jover resides in Worcester.
Bertram D. Ashe, of the English
department, earned a bachelor’s
degree from San Jose State
University, a master’s degree from
Virginia Commonwealth
University, and a Ph.D. from the
College of William and Mary. A
member of the Holy Cross faculBertram D. Ashe
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Miller directs
five-college “Requiem”
B
ruce I. Miller, director of the College Choir and Chamber
Singers, brought together 200 singers to perform Brahms’
“Ein Deutsches Requiem,” at Mechanics Hall in Worcester
on April 28. Under Miller’s direction, choirs from Holy
Cross, Anna Maria College, Clark University, WPI and Worcester
State College formed The Choruses of the Worcester Consortium.
The large professional orchestra that accompanied the chorus included students and faculty from all the participating schools, including
Holy Cross. Miller, who conceived of the project a year ago, solicited
the help of area music professors to assemble the chorus. Guest
soloists included Kristyn Snyer ’90 and Dana Whiteside ’88.
Lee Oser, of the English department, earned a bachelor’s degree
from Reed College, and both a
master’s and Ph.D. from Yale
University. A member of the
Holy Cross community since
1998, Oser is one of the
College’s Edward Bennett
Williams Fellows. In addition to
serving on the Committee on
Faculty Affairs, he is a member
Lee Oser
of the Philosophy Reading
Group. The author of T.S. Elliot and American Poetry
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998), Oser is currently working on two book projects with the help of a Ford
Foundation Grant. He is a resident of Worcester.
Edward John Soares, of the
mathematics department, earned
a bachelor’s degree from
Providence College, and both a
master’s and Ph.D. from the
University of Arizona. A member
since 1996, Soares has served on
the Committee on Faculty
Affairs and the Sub-Committee
on the Economic Status of the
Edward John Soares
Faculty. He also serves as assistant professor of nuclear medicine at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center. Soares is co-author of “Noise
characterization of block-iterative reconstruction algorithms:
I. Theory.” He is a resident of Worcester.
Denise Schaeffer, of the political
science department, earned a
bachelor’s degree from Sarah
Lawrence College, and both a
master’s and Ph.D. from
Fordham University. A member
since 1995, Schaeffer is an active
member in the Women’s Studies
Committee. She is the recipient
of a National Endowment for
Denise Schaeffer
the Humanities Fellowship for
College Teachers. Schaeffer has served as chair of the
American Political Science Association in the politics and literature division. She is author of the forthcoming article,
“The Utility of Ink: Rousseau and Robinson Crusoe” (The
Review of Politics). Schaeffer is a resident of Natick.
Madeline Vargas, of the biology
department, earned a bachelor’s
degree from the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst and a
Ph.D. from the University of
Connecticut. A member of the
Holy Cross community since
1995, Vargas serves on the
Academic Affairs Council. She is
currently the biochemistry concentration coordinator. The
Madeline Vargas
recipient of numerous awards,
including one from the American Society of Cell Biology,
Vargas is the author of “Liposome-mediated DNA uptake
and transient expression in Thermotoga.” She currently
resides in Worcester.
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First Annual Condé Nast Lecture on
Media, Ethics & Values
T
Florio
he first annual Condé Nast Lecture on Media, Ethics
and Values was presented at Holy Cross on March 13 in
the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center. The lecture
featured a distinguished panel of journalists who addressed the
topic, “Press Covering Press: What Does It Teach Us?” The
panel was moderated by David Remnick, editor of The New
Yorker. Participants included Ken Auletta, media reporter for
The New Yorker; Matthew Rose of the Wall Street Journal; Keith
Kelly of the New York Post; and Scott Donaton of Ad Age.
The new lecture series is made possible by a gift from The
Condé Nast Publications, Inc. Steve Florio, president and chief
executive officer of Condé Nast and a member of the Board of
Trustees at Holy Cross, introduced the panel.
Condé Nast publishes numerous magazines including The
New Yorker, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit
and Gourmet. Condé Nast Publications’ mission stresses its
commitment “to journalistic integrity, influential reporting and
superior design.”
Justice Clarence Thomas ’71 delivers
Hanify-Howland Lecture
Thomas has served on the nation’s highest court since
October 1991. Prior to that he served for one year as a
judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit. From 1981-1982, he had been assistant
secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education,
and from 1982-1990, as chairman of the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission.
Following his graduation from Holy Cross, Thomas
earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1974. From
1974-1977, he held the position of assistant attorney general in Missouri. He then went to work for the Monsanto
Company from 1977-1979, and later worked for two years
for then-Sen. John Danforth.
The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late
Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a
Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died
in 1954. The series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late
Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., a board chairman of
Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.
C
larence Thomas ’71, U.S. Supreme Court Justice,
delivered the annual Hanify-Howland Memorial
lecture at Holy Cross on April 8 in the Ballroom of
the Hogan Campus Center. Justice Thomas’ talk was titled,
“Judging and the Court.”
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“Sacred Spaces” conference focuses
on sites of worship
O
n April 5-7, Holy Cross hosted the conference, “Sacred Spaces: Legacy and
Responsibility.” Designed to explore the history and culture surrounding sites of worship, the
conference also offered practical advice on archiving
and insuring these sites.
Sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and
Culture at Holy Cross, “Sacred Spaces” was supported
by the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the
Arts. It attracted approximately 250 participants,
including scholars, music specialists, archivists, preservationists, college students and clergy members.
Leading scholars presented their research through
papers, roundtable discussions and lectures on topics
such as music, architecture and art of American buildings from the 19th century. In addition, the conference featured concerts of sacred music, tours of local
historical churches and the viewing of material relevant to restoration programs.
Nobel Laureate Murray ’40 delivers
Thomas More Lecture
O
n April 24, Joseph E. Murray, M.D., ’40
delivered the first annual Thomas More
Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life in
the Rehm Library of Smith Hall. Murray
is the 1990 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine, for his pioneering work on
kidney transplantation. In 1954, he performed the
first human kidney transplant, launching the era of
organ transplantation. His subsequent work, for which
he was cited by the Nobel committee, advanced doctors’ ability to prevent transplant rejection.
Murray is professor of medicine emeritus at
Harvard Medical School and the author of a recent
memoir, Surgery of the Soul.
The Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and
Civic Life honors a graduate of Holy Cross who exemplifies the College’s dedication to the integration of
faith and learning.
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“Building Spaces” Exhibit Staged
T
he Holy Cross College archives &
special collections department has
organized a new exhibit, “Building
Spaces: Holy Cross Architecture 18361935.” The exhibit has been designed to
complement the “Sacred Spaces” exhibit on
display this semester in the Cantor Art
Gallery. While the latter encompasses places
of worship throughout New England, the
former focuses on the Holy Cross campus.
“Building Spaces” includes photographs,
blueprints and architectural proposals, sheet
music, stationery, paintings and religious
objects that depict images from Holy Cross’
predecessor institutions and significant people in the early life of the College.
Of particular interest are a cope and
other religious items owned or used by
Bishop James Augustine Healy, many of
which were commissioned to celebrate his
25th anniversary as Bishop of Portland,
Maine. Bishop Healy was valedictorian of
the first graduating class at Holy Cross in
1849. These items are on loan for the exhibit
from the Cathedral of the Immaculate
Research at Holy Cross
Leads to Patent Process
I
n a patent published on March 26, (U.S. Patent No.
6,362,375), researchers from the chemistry department
describe a clean alternative for many applications of the
Friedel-Crafts Reaction, used to manufacture important
products such as the pharmaceutical ibuprofen.
The Friedel-Crafts Reaction is an important chemical
process that has changed little since Victorian times, making
it one of the “dirtiest” processes used by today’s chemical
industry. The two-step process uses large amounts of highly
acidic reagents. Large quantities of waste are produced from
the first step as acidic vapors, and from the second step as
an acidic solution that is difficult to discard. The new
process, created by a Holy Cross chemistry professor with
assistance from a student, uses a modern catalyst that is stable to water, making the process highly efficient by allowing
the two steps to be combined into just one.
The principal inventor is Martin A. Walker, a former
Holy Cross chemistry professor (now at SUNY-Potsdam,
N.Y.). He was assisted by Patrick Birmingham ’99 (now at
Loyola University Medical School in Illinois) as part of the
College’s undergraduate research program. Walker is developing specific applications of the process to make ibuprofen
and Valium ™ (Roche Laboratories). The work has already
attracted interest from both industry and academia, and
Walker is hopeful the process will be used widely by the
chemical industry.
Conception, Portland. Also included is an
1831 portrait of Bishop Benedict Fenwick.
The portrait is on loan from the Ursuline
Convent, Dedham, Mass.
T
he College Archives is in the
process of assembling an exhibit
commemorating Holy Cross men
who served their country during World War
II. Tentatively titled, “Holy Cross’ Greatest
Generation,” the exhibit is planned for
spring 2003. The Archives is interested in
borrowing or copying documents, photographs, souvenirs or memorabilia relating to
Holy Cross men in the war. If you have
material that you are willing to lend for this
exhibit, please contact: Mark Savolis, head of
Archives and Special Collections at (508)
793-2506 or email at
[email protected].
Holy Cross Student Dies;
Fellow Student Charged with
Manslaughter
onathan R. Duchatellier, a
first-year student at the
College, died on May 6 following an off-campus fight at the
Cambridge Street Apartments at 510
Cambridge St. in Worcester.
Duchatellier, 19, was from Atlantic
Highlands, N. J., and a member of
the College’s Naval ROTC unit. (See
obituary on page 78).
Paolo Liuzzo, a Holy Cross sophomore, was arrested and charged
Duchatellier ’05
with manslaughter in the death of
Duchatellier. The Woodbury, N.Y.,
native was released on $25,000 bail, and the case against him has
been continued to June 20 for a pretrial conference.
College president, Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., released the
following statement about the tragedy:
“This unprecedented and shocking tragedy grieves us all. It has left
a valued and loved member of our community dead and another facing serious criminal charges. Other students, especially friends and
associates of those directly involved, are feeling a range of painful
emotions, including grief, anger, frustration, confusion and guilt. All
of us in positions of responsibility feel a profound regret that this
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The “New”
Jesuits
By Donald N.S. Unger
What’s Changed and What Hasn’t
M
ost of them share Latin Mass as a childhood memory, the priest with his back to the congregation. But for all of them, having been ordained in the aftermath of the Second Vatican
Council, when they’ve presided over Mass themselves, it has always been facing the congregation and in the local language, as priests presiding among, rather than presiding over.
Up through the late 1960s, Jesuit faculty at Holy Cross walked Mount Saint James in the cassock. In the
early 1970s, as a result of Jesuit response to Vatican II, this custom came to an end. Some Jesuits wore black
and the Roman collar; most simply donned the jackets and ties of their lay colleagues. Today, that stylistic
blending is near total: Jesuit faculty wear liturgical vestments when presiding in the campus chapel; some
make a point of wearing the Roman collar for certain classes—some religious studies courses, for example—or
as a matter of respect, and as a teaching tool; but walking into one of the departmental lounges on campus on
an average day, one is hard pressed to sort who’s who by appearance, whether the dress is suit jackets or button-down shirts or jeans.
But ask William Clark, Brian Linnane, James Miracky, Paul Nienaber, William Stempsey or Thomas
Worcester, the younger six of the dozen active Jesuit faculty, or Gerard McKeon ’76, an associate chaplain,
about the ways in which the younger Jesuits—those under age 50—are different from the Jesuits that came
before them and the ways in which the vocation has changed, and one would be more likely to draw a smile
and a gently amused response, than either defensiveness or a reprimand.
As historian Fr. Tom Worcester puts it, “The notion of tradition is one that’s organic and growing and
changing, but within that there is a basic commitment to an optimistic assessment of the dignity of the
human person, of reason as not a threat to religion.”
Jesuits have always worked to fit themselves into the culture in which they live and work, you would be
told; their worldliness has long been something from which they have drawn strength and which has attracted
criticism.
A common description of how the order has often seen itself—this metaphor came up, in one form or
another, in virtually every conversation—is that Jesuits are positioned along edges and fault lines, interpreting
in more than one direction, explaining the Church to the world and the world to the Church. And, while certainly acknowledging change, all of the Jesuits named above and discussed on the following pages would be
more likely to point to deeper continuities, paramount among them the ongoing commitment to the ideals
that informed the founding of Holy Cross and of other Jesuit institutions, academic and otherwise.
“We give glory to God by developing our intellectual capacities,” Fr. Gerry McKeon says. “We give glory to
God by developing the whole person. Educating the whole person: spiritual, intellectual and physical. That’s
very much part of our tradition.”
Their clothing is different; their pedagogical and scholarly methods are everything from traditional to modern to postmodern—or sometimes all of those things, and sometimes in the space of the same class. Their
goals, however, whether spiritual or intellectual, and their underlying faith—these things have not changed.
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Rev. William A. Clark, S.J.
“God is a pretty big guy; He can deal with
this stuff.”
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r. Bill Clark has spent
some six years living in
Kingston, Jamaica. He
has done pastoral work
there, in St. Thomas Aquinas
Parish. He has been a teacher of history at St. George’s College and a
lecturer at St. Michael’s Theological
Institute and at St. Michael’s
Seminary.
This was by no means easy duty.
“It’s a fascinating place, Jamaica,”
Fr. Clark remembers. “The strain of
it was in trying to stand upright in
all the cultural crosscurrents that are
down there. And, of course, that
involves the church very much.”
From 1989 to 1993, he was the
music director at St. Matthew’s
parish in Dorchester, Mass., in a
church about which he ultimately
wrote his doctoral dissertation, with
a congregation that had shifted over
time from mostly Irish to mostly
Haitian.
Both at home and abroad, he has
had the experience of being the only
white person on the bus.
Given some of the multicultural
debates that have roiled campuses
nationwide for several decades now,
one might think that this set of experiences would credential him to speak
from a point of view rare for someone
of his background: he is a white man
who can talk about what it is like to
be part of a minority group.
But that’s not the way in which Fr.
Clark has found these experiences useful.
“What it does for me,” he says,
after a pause, “is not to give me a
sense that I have a voice of authority
to speak in these situations. What it
does for me more is give me a sense of
the need to listen.”
It is a gentle, nuanced response,
one which someone else might deploy
in a tactful display of political correctness. Fr. Clark’s scholarly work, however, bespeaks the depth and sincerity
of his words. The dissertation he wrote
for his doctorate in sacred theology
was a study of the Dorchester church
in which he worked, titled: “Authority,
Intimacy, and Local Church: The
Local Community as Foundational for
the Universal Church.”
He describes his focus this way,
“My big interest, theologically, academically, has been what happens in
the local community in terms of an
authoritative voice within the tradition
… One of the spurs to that in my
own thinking was the experience in
Jamaica of seeing how much—perhaps
without even realizing it—people took
it on themselves as a local community
to reinterpret and to re-express the
faith that was given to them.”
As is true with most of the other
Jesuit faculty members, Fr. Clark finds
the issue of orthodoxy not so much
vexing as diversionary and rather
beside the point.
“As long as I’m manning the barricades defending my orthodoxy,” he
says, “I don’t really see how I have a
lot of time left for real worship or real
faith. One thing that I often say to
people in a penitential situation is that
‘God is a pretty big guy; He can deal
with this stuff.’”
What he is examining in his
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research and his thinking, his pastoral
work and his scholarly pursuits is the
way in which power in the church
flows in multiple directions, from the
bottom up as much as it does from
the top down.
“The thing that I would like to be
able to do in theology,” he says, “is to
find room for that kind of grassroots
faith expression, in terms of acknowledging the kind of authority that that
has—that this is a genuine expression
of religious faith.”
In the end, Fr. Clark points out, he
isn’t so much making new arguments
about how the church functions as he
is analyzing reality on the ground.
“The authority is there whether you
want to acknowledge it or not,” he
says. “Whether you ever give it a
name, it’s having an enormous
impact.”
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Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J.
“I hate the idea of ‘ending up.’ ”
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s someone who
focuses in significant part on sexual
ethics, Fr. Brian
Linnane doesn’t have the luxury of
seeing much separation at all
between at least some of his scholarly work, his pastoral work or from
the personal lives of his students:
the connections are clear and constant, and the decisions students
make are not always as well thought
out as he would like them to be.
“I try to get them [the students]
to look at what sorts of behaviors
and choices, generally speaking, are
conducive to human flourishing and
the flourishing of community, and
what sorts of behaviors are destructive to human flourishing and the
flourishing of community. That’s a
kind of moral realism that is consistent with what’s best in the Roman
Catholic natural law tradition,” Fr.
Linnane says.
As with a number of the other
Jesuit faculty—most of whom
preach and say Mass in rotation in
the campus chapel—Fr. Linnane
struggles constantly, in class and
outside of class, with the issue of
how to engage students on these
issues without shutting down discussion by distancing himself from
them and from their experiences—
with how to talk about intimate
questions in a way that genuinely
spurs reflection.
“It seems to me,” he says, “that
you have to ask yourself, Is this rela-
tionship—just as someone pursuing a
religious vocation has to ask—is this
what God is calling me to do, what I
experience God calling me to do? Is this
authentic? The same way, in any relationship that you don’t just let it happen because it’s convenient, but is this
really what God is calling me to in order
to make myself and my partner fully
alive, fully human, that our relationship
will really generate life, happiness,
peace?”
While Fr. Linnane is concerned, in
his scholarly work, in his pastoral
work, and in his personal relationships
with students with the issue of moral
choice, he is particularly incensed by
passivity, by the idea—and the reality—of people simply drifting toward
poor choices.
“I hate the term, ‘you’ll probably
end up,’” he says. “I hate the idea of
‘ending up,’ or people thinking about
themselves as ending up … When my
students talk about their future—‘well,
I’ll probably end up doing this’—my
response is that that sounds passive
and that—especially with this population!—you have some resources, you
have some time; think about what it is
you really want to do.”
He takes particular pleasure in having the opportunity to influence students over a period of years and to see
the ways in which some of them
change and grow.
“It’s great,” he says. “I actually
speak to some kids who, a few years
later, decide that—the hell with the
expectations—I want to teach. I know
I’m not going to make a lot of money,
but this is something that I want to
do; or I want to pursue a scholarly
career; or I want to do something pastoral, I want to work in the church in
some way.”
In his own life, he evinces satisfaction with the choices he has made,
and the place this has brought him to.
“For me, I can’t imagine anything
that would be better to do with my
life than what I am doing here. Are
there sacrifices, are there downsides,
are there times I wish I were doing
something else? Sure. But who doesn’t?
You sort of have this myth that being
partnered to someone or married and
pursuing the big income, the big job,
that that’s just perfect. But in the end,
none of us get out of this alive; to use
Christian imagery, we all have to face
the cross in our lives.”
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Y
Rev. James J. Miracky, S.J.
“A little cognitive dissonance can be a very
healthy thing.”
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es, some of the students who take Fr.
Jim Miracky’s literature classes, particularly those that deal with more
recent work, find themselves surprised both by what they’re reading
and by who’s teaching them. That’s
a good thing, according to Fr.
Miracky, for both teacher and students.
“They carry certain expectations,
but because I teach largely contemporary literature, because I have
interests in gender studies and in
feminist theory, the material I teach
is very provocative, and I have had
students amazed that Father is
teaching this, that, or the other
thing; I sort of get a charge out of
that.”
Writing in these pages (Holy
Cross Magazine, October ’98) about
Tim O’Brien’s short story collection,
The Things They Carried, Fr.
Miracky explains the appeal that literature holds for him, both as a
reader and as a teacher, particularly
work that spills over boundaries and
that deals with difficult topics.
“O’Brien’s book of short stories
relating events surrounding the
Vietnam War is a triumph not only of
war fiction but also of postmodern
narrative,” he writes. “Blurring the
lines between fiction and the ‘facts’ of
his war experience, O’Brien’s tales of
battles fought and comrades lost thrive
equally on love and hate, horror and
beauty to get at ‘truths’ about war that
defy human logic. I get a kick out of
seeing students wrestle with the gray
areas of these stories, which resist the
desire for neat explanation and resolution.”
Fr. Miracky is as willing to put
himself on unfamiliar ground as he is
to put his students there. Recently, for
example, he taught a course on 21stcentury literature, surely something
not yet seen in most curricula.
“Since there isn’t critical writing on
this subject, except for a few reviews,”
he told prospective students, “we’re
going to be taking a stab at figuring
out what’s going on here, attempting
to create some kind of interpretative
community.”
The fact that he himself was on
new ground, as well, was not a problem. Pedagogically, it allowed for some
useful modeling.
“There are questions out there,” Fr.
Miracky argues, “for which the best
answer at the time is ‘I don’t know.’ I
think that encourages our students,
that we don’t have it all packaged up.”
Postmodern literature and postmodern theory, with the challenges
that both pose to the questions of
identity, of fixity, of solid and
unchanging answers, strike Fr.
Miracky not as threats but as useful
forms of exercise for students, both
intellectual and moral.
“What they come in as can be challenged, changed, exposed to new
things.” he says of his students, “We
can get them to think about the ways
in which their identities have been
formed and in which they are constantly being formed.”
And to the degree that the students
are further challenged by the fact that
these quandaries are being put before
them by a Jesuit priest, that’s fine, too.
“I think it explodes their cate-
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gories,” Fr. Miracky says. “I think it’s
helpful, that they see that religion or
religious life is not separate from the
rest of their lives. And that whatever
sense they may have of Catholicism—
those that are Catholic or even those
that are not—they come to a place
like Holy Cross, and they’re encouraged to expand their horizons, to learn
how to think critically, to recognize—
and this is something that goes back
to a motto of our founder, St. Ignatius
Loyola—finding God in all things, to
recognize that we don’t say, ‘well, OK,
here are the areas of life experience
that sort of fit in with what it means
to be Catholic (and, for me, to be a
priest), and the rest of this stuff we
just turn a blind eye toward or express
disdain for or whatever it is. I very
much enjoy teaching them things that
challenge them.”
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Rev. Paul Nienaber, S.J.
From the Sage-on-the-Stage to the
Guide-on-the-Side
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ost people haven’t
been kept up nights
over the last 30 years
or so by the mystery
of the missing solar neutrinos. For
physicists, however, the problem has
been both real and serious; scientists
had consistently been able to detect
only about half the number of neutrinos which prevailing models indicated
should be emitted from our sun. This
raised the possibility that they either
didn’t understand something fundamental about the thermonuclear reaction
that heats the sun, or that they didn’t
understand something fundamental
about neutrinos—subatomic particles,
classified as electron-neutrinos, muonneutrinos or tau-neutrinos.
As a physicist, these questions were
very much a matter of interest to Fr.
Paul Nienaber, who spends as much of
his break time as he can at Fermilab, in
Batavia, Ill., looking into the behavior
of neutrinos. It was important news to
Fr. Nienaber, in June of last year, when
the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, in
Canada, finally uncovered the reason
for the discrepancy between the number
of neutrinos predicted versus the number observed: the neutrinos oscillate in
transit between the sun and the earth,
changing half of them in ways that
make them difficult to detect if you
don’t know what to look for. Fr.
Nienaber’s current experimental research
at Fermilab focuses on more precisely
explaining how and why this happens.
Currently, Fr. Nienaber is the only
Jesuit on campus working outside the
humanities, and this adds an extra layer
of complexity to the roles that he juggles. But his approach to teaching is very
much informed by his study of both theology and philosophy, and by an alternation, over the years, between being a
teacher and being a student.
“One of the most valuable lessons I
learned from a diocesan priest, 25 years
ago,” he says, “was that you don’t preside
over, you preside among. And that’s the
same thing that happens with me in the
classroom: I don’t teach over, I teach
among. In physics education research it’s
called going from being the-sage-on-thestage to being the-guide-on-the-side.”
He recalls with pleasure, as well, an
analogy drawn by another friend serving
as a diocesan priest: “He said, diocesan
priests are like shepherds and Jesuits are
like sheepdogs. We run around the edges
of the flock, and pick up the people who
are on the margins. And I think that’s
what we do at our best. We stand at the
center of our disciplines—I stand at the
center of physics, and I say this is what
physics means—but I also stand on
those interface edges where science
comes up against society, where science
comes up against theology, where science
comes up against ethics, and you stand
at the interface, and to the extent that
you’re able, you interpret in both directions. You don’t withdraw to the middle
and say the center must be held; you
stand on the edges and say, ‘I know this
is hard, and I know this is messy, but I’m
going to stand here because I know that
there’s something valuable here.’ The
growth takes place at the edges.”
Moving back to the church from the
academy, Fr. Nienaber closes the loop:
“Vatican II says the Church is the people
of God. So, welcome to this zany, multifaceted, weird, human, messy, beautiful,
gorgeous church!”
One current academic project about
which Fr. Nienaber is particularly excited
is a proposal for the National Science
Foundation. “With two other faculty
members—one at Bucknell University in
Pennsylvania and one at Embry-Riddle
University, an aeronautical university in
Prescott, Ariz.—I’ve put together a proposal to bring six students [two from
each institution] to spend a semester at
Fermilab. The students will take four
faculty-supervised courses: one lecture,
one research laboratory, a particle physics
seminar, and a practicum/seminar on the
goals and techniques of communicating
science.”
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The teaching of science is obviously
at the heart of this proposal. But in addition to giving undergraduates more
hands-on experience in an elite national
lab, Fr. Nienaber is also interested in a
more complex and thorough process of
academic and professional socialization,
one that does not slight the humanitiesside skills that working scientists need to
be successful.
“We never teach our students these
things,” he laments. “That’s the problem. And what happens is they sort of
pick it up—if they’re lucky! They’re in a
group either as undergraduate researchers
or as graduate students, where this sort
of thing is taught to them, and they’re
socialized into, how you give a 10minute talk, how you give a 20-minute
talk, how to give an hour-long talk, how
to write an article for the local newspaper, how to write a letter to the editor,
how to write for a magazine like Science
News, how to write to the government,
how to talk to funding agencies, how to
communicate with the general public.”
If the project is accepted, Fr.
Nienaber hopes to have the first Holy
Cross students out in Illinois in
September 2003; and, ultimately, this
will enable him to expand and enrich the
kinds of courses he is able to offer at
Holy Cross as well.
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Rev. William E. Stempsey, S.J.
“Congratulations Father Doctor Doctor.”
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fter my
Ph.D.
defense,” Fr.
Bill
Stempsey relates, “my dissertation
director came back and said,
‘Congratulations Father Doctor
Doctor.’”
The list of honorifics was wholly
appropriate. By the time he earned
his Ph.D., in philosophy, from
Georgetown University in 1996, he
was 18 years beyond the M.D. he
had earned from the State
University of New York, Buffalo. In
the interim, he had been ordained a
Jesuit priest and picked up a masters
degree in health care ethics at
Loyola University in Chicago, only
the third person to earn the degree
there.
Fr. Stempsey tells this story with
a twinkle in his eye, still entertained
by the complex arc of his intertwined careers—medical, philosophical and spiritual.
He grew up in an observant,
Polish Catholic household. He did
his undergraduate work at Boston
College. And his experience with the
Jesuits there, in the early 1970s, was
positive.
“They were available,” he remembers. “They were real. They were good
teachers. They were willing to listen.
They were interesting, and they were
doing a lot of interesting things.”
He went on to medical school anyway, rather than into the priesthood at
that point, and then went through the
requisite internships and residencies.
But ultimately, he didn’t find where he
ended up as satisfying as he had
thought it would be.
“I knew I didn’t want to be a
pathologist,” he says, of his medical
specialty. “The more I got into that
the more I got into managing laboratories … I knew I didn’t want to do
that.”
But as to what he did want to do,
that wasn’t entirely clear. Figuring it
out took time.
Even after becoming a priest, the
prospect remained that he could still
be a medical doctor; nationwide, there
are a handful of Jesuit physicians, sur-
geons and psychiatrists, who have
combined medical practice with spiritual calling. Fr. Stempsey could have
retrained in a different medical specialty. But, ultimately, that was not the
direction in which he felt called.
As medicine and the bio-sciences
continue to expand, questions that
have been abstract become, sometimes
painfully, concrete. In some countries,
for example, it is now legal for people
to sell “spare” organs—we only need
one kidney, after all. Fr. Stempsey’s
response to this, to what has generally
been referred to as “the commodification of the body” takes recourse to
church teaching but also to moral philosophy.
“My kidney is part of me,” he says.
“It’s part of who I am. And I think we
say something pernicious about who
human beings are when we start to
put prices on parts of ourselves.”
While the field of medical ethics
has seen significant growth in the last
decade or two—and issues associated
with cloning, genetic manipulation
and advanced reproductive medical
techniques promise to accelerate this
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trend—Fr. Stempsey’s work deals with
related but subtly different issues.
“My real specialty,” he says, “is the
philosophy of medicine, which constitutes more foundational things, like
concepts of health and disease, the
philosophical basis behind how we
structure medical care. Not so much
what we should do but what are the
metaphysical and the epistemological
issues.”
He could have taught medical students or graduate school, but over
time—through prayer, reflection, and
consultation—Fr. Stempsey came to
the conclusion that he would have a
stronger impact on undergraduates,
particularly on premeds.
“Aristotle in the Metaphysics says
that philosophy begins in wonder,” he
explains. “And that’s really what I am
trying to get at with students here, to
have them develop a philosophical
attitude, to wonder about things,
whether it be medicine, or the meaning of life or anything in between.”
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Rev. Thomas W. Worcester, S.J.
“The historian takes the long view: patience,
stepping back, looking at things in context.”
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ssociate Professor of
history Fr. Tom
Worcester has spent
a good deal of his
life in the 17th century. One focal
point of his scholarly work has been
the life and the writings of the
French Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus
who was made Bishop of Belley at
the age of 25, by special dispensation of Paul V, in 1609, and was
consecrated by St. Francis of Sales,
bishop of Geneva.
“He published 250 books in his
lifetime,” Fr. Worcester notes, “so
there’s a lot of material to work on.
I used him as a kind of window
onto religious mentality, religious
culture of the early 17th century in
France.”
Worcester was educated at a catalog of first-rank universities. He
earned his bachelor’s degree from
Columbia University and Ph.D.
from the University of Cambridge.
He received a master of theological
studies from Harvard Divinity
School, a licence en philosophie
from the Institut Supérieur de
Théologie et de Philosophie de la
Compagnie de Jésus, Paris, and a
licentiate in sacred theology from the
Weston School of Theology.
His scholarly interests, while
anchored in history, have an interdisciplinary cast to them. In 1999, for
example, he was one of five co-curators who received a National
Endowment for the Arts grant for an
exhibition at the McMullen Museum
of Art at Boston College, titled “Saints
and Sinners: Caravaggio and the
Baroque Image.”
Is teaching medieval or renaissance
history difficult, when your students
are part of the short-attention span,
MTV generation? In some ways, he
admits, it is. There is a balancing act
to be maintained between demonstrating some measure of contemporary
relevance and modern parallel, while
still remaining true to history.
“If you make it too familiar, too
relevant,” Fr. Worcester says, “you falsify the past … On the other hand, if
it’s too strange to them, if it’s too for-
eign, then it’s completely opaque, and
they have no access to it.”
Fr. Worcester also stresses the value
of the study of history as an important
counterpoint to many of the cultural
influences that swamp today’s students. “History, in all kinds of ways,”
he says, “provides a healthy perspective, sort of the antidote to the CNN,
sound-bite approach to reality, where
everything is a crisis … The historian
takes the exact opposite approach,
takes the long view: patience, stepping
back, looking at things in context.”
That perspective, that longer view,
that patience—a more nuanced and
variegated view of both the past and
the present—also informs how
Worcester sees the current situation of
Jesuit faculty at Holy Cross.
“Sometimes people will speak negatively about the situation of the Jesuits
here—oh, there are so few of you; there
used to be so many. If you go back to
the late 18th century, Jesuits were suppressed altogether. In that sense, today
is a kind of Golden Age.”
Changes in number or in surface
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appearance notwithstanding, he also
sees underlying continuities.
“The bottom-line commitments
that Jesuits have,” he says, “include
things like [the idea that] reason and
revelation are not contradictory. There
is not—should not be—a war between
faith and reason. The way we
approach things is not to be afraid of
all kinds of rigorous academic enquiry
in all kinds of fields, not just in theology, but in all areas. At the same time,
we also see questions about faith and
meaning and God as central questions
that have a place in the academy.”
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Rev. Gerard R. McKeon, S.J., ’76
“I am a loved sinner.”
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erry McKeon has
been here before. An
undergraduate at
Holy Cross in the
early 1970s, he returned some 25
years later as an assistant chaplain.
Some things have changed, he says.
And some things haven’t. Yes, we
live in a period that he views as
more materialistic and individualistic than was his own time at Holy
Cross. But students continue to
search for ongoing spiritual support
and guidance. And community
service remains an important value
on campus and an important component of Jesuit education.
Like Fr. Bill Clark, Fr. McKeon
has spent extensive time—eight
years, in two, four-year, stints—living in Jamaica. He describes his
experiences there as both humbling
and useful—and he encourages students to participate in both the
immersion programs available during vacation periods and postgraduate programs like the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps, which bring them
into closer and more sustained contact
with poorer communities and with
different cultures, both foreign and
domestic.
Beyond the educational and spiritual value of such work, Fr. McKeon
says, the goal is justice: “to become
men and women for others and with
others, in solidarity with those who
struggle, to really work to build a
more just world, a more caring world,
and a world that really brings greater
equality—that tries to narrow the gap
between rich and poor.”
In the way that he speaks about the
students’ need for support, he is careful to emphasize their need for structure as well. He talks about love, but
he talks about tough love.
“You want to affirm them,” he says
of students seeking guidance, “support
them on their journey. You want them
to know that they’re loved because
self-esteem issues are important to a
lot of students. We offer an adaptation
of the Spiritual Exercises of St.
Ignatius of Loyola. This is a very
important part of our retreat program.
Through the Spiritual Exercises many
students come to a personal experience
of God’s unconditional love. This
experience of God’s love is something
we really want to encourage among
our students.”
“And the Spiritual Exercises,” Fr.
McKeon continues, “also enable our
students to acknowledge that ‘I am a
loved sinner,’ and to really come to
grips with this truth. It would be
unfair to our students if we did not
help them to look at this reality in
their lives. So I’m a loved sinner. I’m
in need of redemption. And I think
it’s our role as chaplains to help students get in touch with areas in their
lives where they experience unfreedom, where there are obstacles to their
spiritual growth.”
While spiritual guidance, pastoral
counseling and social justice programs
are key to the work of the Chaplains’
Office, Fr. McKeon also stresses the
broader mission of the College.
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“The whole sense of finding God
in all things is key to this institution,”
he says—“realizing that everything is a
place for the sacred, that God can be
found in every interaction. In your
studies, in your relationships, in every
aspect of your life, not only in church.
God is there, concrete and substantial.
And we are called to be reflective in
our actions, to contemplate and to
seek God in everyday life.”
“We give glory to God by developing our intellectual capacities,” Fr.
McKeon says. “We give glory to God
by developing the whole person.
Educating the whole person: spiritual,
intellectual and physical. That’s very
much part of our tradition.”
Donald N.S. Unger is a free-lance journalist from Worcester.
MISSION STATEMENT
This February, the Jesuit Community at Holy Cross
adopted the following Mission Statement. Drafted
by a committee comprised of Rev. James Miracky,
S.J., Rev. William Reiser, S.J., and Rev. Dennis
Yesalonia, S.J., the Statement was the culmination of
a process that began in September 2000.
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e, the Jesuit Community at the College of the Holy Cross,
shaped by the Gospel, the Ignatian Exercises, and our encounters
with the people of God, and missioned here by the Society of
Jesus, embrace our responsibility to Holy Cross as living representatives of the College’s traditions and identity.
We pursue wisdom. In collaboration with our College associates who are engaged
in teaching, ministry, scholarship, administration, and support services, we challenge
our students and alumni/ae to recognize and develop their God-given talents and to
accept their responsibility to do justice as they live out their callings. We vigorously
pursue truth and serve the Catholic Church and the wider world through research,
publication, and the availability of our personal and corporate resources.
We promote faith. Ordained for ministry in the Catholic Church, we serve the
College community in sacramental, pastoral, and prophetic ways. We nurture the
search for faith among all members of the College community and engage in dialogue with our colleagues concerning issues of faith and justice.
We seek God in all things. Within the College, we are a praying community that
embraces both Holy Cross and the wider world. We use the tools of critical reflection to examine our institutional integrity, which is most authentic when it is
grounded in Gospel values and the norms of social justice. We challenge the College
community to live out its commitment to authentic personal freedom and respect
for human dignity.
We are enriched by the gifts and dedication of the members of this College community. Ever renewed by the vision of St. Ignatius of Loyola that is at the heart of
the identity of the College of the Holy Cross as a Jesuit, liberal arts institution, we
dedicate our lives to expressing that tradition “for the greater glory of God.”
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Faculty Profile
And an Equation
Runs Through It
Mathematician Catherine Roberts is helping to
regulate traffic on the Colorado River.
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e see the world through
the lens of our experience and the filters of
our specialized knowledge. Ask a mathematician, and she’ll
tell you that the world is made up of
numbers, from the natural world geometry that defines snowflakes, to the engineering equations that define the construction of the buildings in which we
live and work.
In focusing her students’ attention
on this fact, Catherine Roberts, an associate professor in the department of
mathematics and computer science,
introduces them to a topic that interests
many of us as we start our day: coffee.
“My first assignment in
‘Mathematical Models,’” she says, “is to
create some equations that help judge
the quality of a cup of coffee. There are
many variables that can be considered
(quality of the bean, method of roasting,
manner of making the coffee, characteristics of the water ...). The challenge is
to find a balance between including
enough variables to obtain realistic
results and having resultant math equations that are simple enough to solve.
We spend much of our time fine-tuning
our judgement skills in this regard.”
More sophisticated math can be
applied to a more complex mix of disciplines and personal interests. “I majored
in both mathematics and art history as
an undergraduate,” Roberts continues,
“and I’ve always been particularly interested in the interfaces between science
and art. For example, calculus techniques were used to prove that a purported Vermeer masterpiece from the
17th century was actually a fake.”
Someday, she’d like to integrate examples like that into a course on “the science of art.”
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Roberts rafting on the Colorado River
At the present time, however, one
piece of her work might better be
described as “the science of recreation,”
or of “environmental impact.” For several years now, Roberts has been working on the Grand Canyon River Trip
Simulator, a computer program that is
designed to help park managers regulate
rafting traffic on the Colorado River.
The program marries a database of trip
reports to an integrated statistical and
artificial intelligence-based computer
simulation that models the impact of
rafting trip launch schedule changes.
If this sort of software strikes one, at
first blush, as an approach better suited
to modeling traffic in and out of a busy
airport or through a heavily used tunnel, consider that the current wait for
people who want to book a non-commercial rafting trip through the Grand
Canyon is on the order of 12 years:
book today so you can travel in the year
2014!
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According to an article that
Roberts co-wrote with Joanna
Bieri, then an undergraduate at
Northern Arizona University, for
the Association for Women in
Science (available on the Web at
www.awis.org/v_maggrandcanyon.html), the full trip runs
some 279 miles, and takes anywhere from three to 22 days,
depending on how far people
choose to go, and whether they
use motorized or non-motorized
rafts. Some 20,000 passengers
currently take this trip annually.
As Roberts and Bieri point
out, “Without reasonable restrictions on the number of people
allowed to raft on the Colorado
River, river trips could cease to be
considered a true wilderness experience.” The GCRTsim, then, is
an example of using technology
to preserve nature.
Her experience with river rafting isn’t just abstract, of course.
And Roberts takes particular
pleasure in puncturing the cliché
image of mathematics as a sedentary, lab-bound field. “As an
applied mathematician,” she says,
“I enjoy breaking down the
stereotypes that I encounter. It’s
fun to surprise mathematicians by
sharing my other interests with
them, such as art and river rafting, as much as I enjoy explaining to
non-mathematicians that my
research is both interesting and relevant.”
There are a number of characteristics of the math and computer science program at Holy Cross that
made both the department and the
larger institution appealing to
Roberts. At or near the top of the
list are issues of scale and issues of
balance.
Northern Arizona University, the
institution from which she came to
Holy Cross, is a significantly larger
place. This made mentoring students much more difficult. As she
wrote in her cover letter when she
applied for her current position at
Holy Cross: “ … one personal disappointment for me working here at
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a large, comprehensive university
(NAU has some 20,000 students) is
that I have rarely seen the same student in more than one course. At
graduation, I’m lucky if I know even
one senior. The students are so distributed that mentoring them, in
the manner that I was mentored [as
an undergraduate] at Bowdoin, is
simply impractical.”
Those structural difficulties
notwithstanding, she continues, she
did everything she could in that
context to include undergraduate
participation in her research work
in a meaningful way. “My one success in this venue has been engaging students in undergraduate
research,” she says. “I am the leader
in my department in this regard,
having had 12 students work on
three distinct funded research projects. I established the Modeling and
Simulation Lab, using my grants to
purchase computers and pay student
wages. Now, in addition to my students, two other faculty have begun
using the lab resources. Our students have been successful getting
into REU and graduate programs.
Their names are on research publications, and they have presented at
several national conferences. I’ve
found this work to be incredibly
rewarding.”
As to the matter of balance, as a
woman in a field that remains dominated by men, as an active member
of the Association for Women in
Mathematics, Roberts stresses that,
“It is crucially important to encour-
age all students to consider nontraditional careers as viable and rewarding alternatives,” and happily points
out that, “the mathematics and
computer science department here
at Holy Cross is close to 50 percent
female. This is, simply put, astounding. While national trends show an
even gender split in undergraduate
majors, women still make up
approximately 20 percent of the new
doctorates each year.”
Roberts remains committed to
increasing those numbers, to mentoring and advocating for her students, to creating possibilities and
opportunities for them, and—for
those of us whose training and experience don’t dispose us to see the
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mathematical components of our
daily lives—to opening our eyes to
the stream of numbers that compose
the world around us.
Donald N.S. Unger is a free-lance
writer from Worcester.
A Dialogue on The
Monologues
By Elizabeth Walker
he off-Broadway
play, The Vagina
Monologues, by playwright/activist Eve
Ensler, is intended
to raise public consciousness
about violence against women,
while also raising funds to help
the victims of such crimes. The
play’s provocative name, noholds-barred dialogue and intimate subject matter also raise
blood pressures, hackles and passionate opinions wherever it is
performed. Two readings of the
play on the Holy Cross campus,
where it was presented in
February as a fund-raiser, proved
no exception. Letters and e-mails
in protest and support of the
performances soon followed.
“I can understand people
objecting to The Vagina
Monologues,” says Rev. Michael
C. McFarland, S.J., president of
Holy Cross. “We considered very
carefully the decision to stage the
readings here. One of our student groups, the Women’s
Forum, wanted to put it on as
part of a national effort to raise
consciousness about violence
against women. Their concerns
deserve our attention. The play
isn’t the vehicle I would have
chosen, but it is a legitimate
piece.”
T
Along with more than $6,000
in ticket sales from two sold-out
performances, the controversial
play raised more than a few eyebrows among Holy Cross students, faculty, alumni and parents, who either vigorously supported or vehemently protested
its staging on campus. Some
who felt the play had no place at
the College were particularly
concerned that one of the readings coincided with Ash
Wednesday. The discussion that
the performances sparked within
the Holy Cross
community—including strong
opinions from some who have
never attended a
performance—mirrors the ongoing discussion that has engaged
proponents and protesters alike
at colleges and communities
across the nation since Ensler
began making her play available
free to schools several years ago.
Each February, The Vagina
Monologues moves way offBroadway and onto hundreds of
college campuses across the
country as part of Ensler’s V-Day
movement to end violence
against women. Between Feb. 8
and March 8 (International
Women’s Day), the playwright
allows schools that have joined
the V-Day College Campaign to
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Kristen Cortiglia ’02
stage up to two performances of
her play free of charge. Holy Cross,
a V-Day College Campaign member through the student-run
Women’s Forum on campus, is one
of nearly 500 of the nation’s colleges and universities, including
Boston College, Fordham,
Georgetown, Regis and St. Mary’s
(Ind.), among other Catholic colleges, that performed the play free
of charge this year. Proceeds from
the performance were donated to
Abby’s House ($5,400)—a shelter
in Worcester for battered women
and their children where many
Holy Cross students
volunteer—and to the
Revolutionary Association of
Women of Afghanistan ($600) to
benefit that country’s widows and
orphans.
For those unfamiliar with the
play, The Vagina Monologues is a
collection of nearly two dozen set
pieces of varying lengths culled
from more than 200 interviews
Ensler conducted with women
from across a broad spectrum of
ages, ethnicities and geographies. In
questioning them about their sexuality, she elicited their most intimate thoughts and experiences.
The candidness with which the
women recounted their feelings and
stories resulted in several monologues and calls for audience participation that might make some
audience members uncomfortable
while offending others.
The reaction of a Holy Cross
mother who attended a reading of
the play with her daughter was fairly typical. She found herself moved
by the power of the women’s stories, despite the crudeness of some
of their words and the rawness of
the images they evoked.
“The production used humor,
raw and sometimes vulgar language, poignant testimonials and
sheer tales of horror to bring forth
the essence of being a woman,” she
says. “The young women who presented the play were remarkable
and very talented. The evening
ended with the opportunity for my
daughter, her friends and me to
have a candid discussion about
many of the issues that the play
brought forth.”
Scheduling and staging two
readings of the play took more than
talent, though there was plenty
available, according to Kristen
Cortiglia ’02, co-director, with
classmate Susanne Calabrese ’02, of
the student-run Holy Cross
Women’s Forum, which sponsored
the production.
“Originally, we wanted to do
the play on March 8, International
Women’s Day, but the ballroom
was not available then,” Cortiglia
says. “Last November, we chose
Feb. 12 and 13 because we thought
that everyone would be busy on
Valentine’s Day. No one involved
noticed that Ash Wednesday was so
early this year. When it became an
issue a week before the performance, I saw no reason to cancel. We
still go to class and play sports on
Ash Wednesday, and the play was
sponsored by the Women’s Forum,
a sanctioned student organization.”
Cortiglia saw another reason to
go forward with the play. “As a
Catholic, Ash Wednesday has
always been a day to beg forgiveness and to be cleansed,” she says.
“It’s also a day to reflect on who
you are and how you live your life.
That’s what the V-Day movement
is about.”
Casting the play from among
the 45 students who came to the
open auditions was the next challenge for Cortiglia and Calabrese.
“Casting was the most integral
part of putting together the performance,” Cortiglia says. “We
assembled a cast of 15 actors, plus
three narrators and three additional
actors, who presented original
pieces submitted anonymously by
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Holy Cross students. We really
found a strong person for each
monologue.”
The reactions of the 600 audience members who attended the
readings each evening, as well as
those of the students, alumni and
parents who weighed in on the
issue by letter and e-mail, were just
as strong and not preordained
exclusively by age or gender. A
first-year student who attended a
reading of the play on campus suggested that, “The reasons for this
play to be stopped could go on
longer than the play itself … By
and large, this production is about
sex.” A classmate added that she
“felt humiliated as a woman” by the
performance she attended. But
those students were in the minority.
Most Holy Cross students who
expressed an opinion supported
putting on the play. They cited the
issues the play raised, as well as
concerns about academic freedom
as reasons to go forward with the
production. Even among those who
found the play objectionable, many
thought that the students should
have the freedom to see it and
judge for themselves.
“That the Vagina Monologues
has a grander purpose than
simply to shock its audience
is only part of the controversy surrounding the performances,” Crusader editor John
Curley ’03 wrote in the student newspaper following the
readings. “… As a school
with a Catholic tradition,
Holy Cross does well to
ensure that this environment
exists. But the school’s religious heritage cannot be
allowed to bar students from
being exposed to other ideas
and viewpoints … those who
argue that the Vagina
Monologues should not be
performed at Holy Cross fail
to understand that students learn the most
important lessons by discussing diverse points of
view.”
While some alumni wrote pointedly that allowing
the play on campus has made their relationship with
the College tenuous, others say that the decision to
stage it has strengthened their connection to Holy
Cross. A class of 1989 alumna, now a professor herself,
writes,
“I offer my strong support for the administration’s decision to produce this play. It made me
proud of my alma mater… next time I’m asked,
I’ll be more inclined to support the College or to
help with admissions recruitment.”
Others were just as passionate in their disdain for
the play’s frank sexuality and language intended to
shock. The wife of an alumnus called the readings
“pornography.” Just as appalled, a member of the class
of 1946 made clear his concerns in a letter that reads,
“… my first reaction was disbelief, then outrage
and finally very deep disappointment … In
sponsoring, publicizing and endorsing this presentation, Holy Cross has abandoned its reputation for high standards, decency and values and
instead sought to justify its surrender to the
unprincipled ‘new culture.’”
Susanne Calabrese ’02
There appear to be no fence-sitters on the subject of
Ensler’s Monologues. and its reading on the Holy Cross
campus. Those who champion the play for what they
see as its “raw honesty and legitimate cause” and those
who pillory it for what they view as its “offensiveness
and ultra-feminist agenda,” would agree on at least two
points—it has raised important issues and sparked
debate within the Holy Cross community.
“Clearly, the play intentionally breaks a lot of
taboos,” Fr. McFarland says. “As Ensler sees it, those
taboos stifle women’s voices. Most people who actually
saw the play got past the ‘body parts’ to its substance
where it seems to resonate with women at deeper levels. While parts of the play may be objectionable to
me, as well as to others, the play raises serious moral
issues about violence against women and the power
relationships that engender it. One needn’t accept
Ensler’s views to believe that these are issues about
which our students should be thinking. Becoming conscious of and exploring issues of social justice are fundamental to what we are about as a Catholic, Jesuit
institution.”
That perspective was not shared by a member of
the Class of 2000, now a Catholic school educator. He
applauded the College leadership for going forward
with the production and for trusting the students to
come to their own decisions regarding the performances. He writes,
“Allowing The Vagina Monologues to be performed at Holy Cross took a great courage and
commitment to the values of academic freedom
and intellectual discovery. Whether we agree or
disagree with this play, whether we are impassioned or offended by this play, we must remember that, if we are truly educators and searchers
for truth and wisdom, we must welcome and
study different perspectives … We are, after all,
women and men who are educated to be mature
enough to make our own decisions regarding
what we see, hear, and by what we are entertained …”
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Front row, left-to-right: Melanie Samsel, secretary for special programs; Nancy Olson, secretary for concentrations; William Meinhofer, director of
the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning; Maureen Consigli, secretary to the director, CISS. Back row, left-to-right: Gary DeAngelis,
associate director for special programs; Susan Cunningham, associate director for concentrations; Richard Matlak, director, CISS.
Innovation and
Having completed its 30th year
Interdisciplinary and Special
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M
aura Nelson ’02 is
majoring in environmental studies
through the Center
for Interdisciplinary
and Special Studies (CISS). With the
help of faculty mentors, she has
designed her multidisciplinary course
of study, which she is just on the point
of completing. And she would have
been hard pressed to find a way to fit
such a major into any of the College’s
freestanding departments. According
to Richard Matlak, the acting director
of CISS, that’s just one of the many
kinds of opportunities that the Center
is designed to provide for students.
A professor of English, specializing
in English Romantic literature, Matlak
first came to Holy Cross in the fall of
1977. He directed the
Interdisciplinary Studies Program for
the 1981-82 academic year and served
as interim director of CISS in 199192. From 1992-1997 he chaired the
English department.
“In keeping with its mission to provide experimental and interdisciplinary
teaching innovations,” he says, “CISS
affords faculty and students the opportunity to do meaningful teaching and
study outside of the major departments and disciplines. Faculty members cooperate in developing multidisciplinary concentrations, multidisciplinary majors and minors, and multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary courses and
programs. Faculty are also responsible
for executing concentration and program budgets, which have the poten-
tial for providing the community with
significant co-curricular programming,
such as the recent Asian Studies panel
on human rights, the Women’s Studies
conference and panels on rape, and
the African-American conference and
concerts on Hair, Hoops, and Jazz.
CISS also sponsors courses to fill gaps
in the College curriculum.”
Founded in 1971, CISS has a number of constituent parts. The Center
administers a variety of academic programs not available through other
departments, such as the concentrations, which are supported by
the Office of the Associate
Director for Concentrations,
Susan Cunningham; several
internship programs managed
by the Associate Director for
Special Programs, Gary
DeAngelis, which have the
goal of linking Holy Cross
students with the cultural,
artistic, business, and political
institutions of the local community, as well as to other
colleges and universities; and
CISS provides a variety of
funding opportunities to support these enterprises, such as
the Marshall Memorial Fund.
There are currently nine
primary curricular concentrations and programs offered by
CISS: African Studies; African
American Studies; Asian
Studies; Environmental
Studies; Latin American
Studies; Middle Eastern
Studies; Peace and Conflict
Studies; Russian and Eastern European
Studies; and Women’s Studies. Three
special programs, the College Honors
Program American Sign Language and
Deaf Studies, and the Fenwick Scholar
Program, also fall under the purview
of CISS.
In addition to providing a venue
for the interdisciplinary work of the
Holy Cross faculty, CISS provides
opportunities for students who wish to
pursue lines of enquiry and study not
available through other departments,
up to and including designing their
Maura Nelson ’02
Experimentation
at the College, the Center for
Studies continues to look forward
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Dean and Academic Vice President
Director, CISS
CISS Committee & SubCommittees on
Special Programs and Curriculum
Secretary
Special Programs
Associate Director, CISS
Academic Internships
Community-Based Learning Director
Secretary
Deaf Studies Director
Concentrations
Associate Director, CISS
Gerontology Program Director
African-American Director
Honors Director
Peace and Conflict Director
Multidisciplinary Majors/Minors
Women’s Studies Director
Fenwick Scholar Program
Asian Studies Director
Student Support
Marshal Fund & Student Grants
Latin American & Latino Studies
Director
Enviromental Studies
German Studies
Washington Program
Medieval-Renaissance Studies
Semester Away
Russian & Eastern European Studies
African Studies
Film Making
own majors or minors, via the
Multidisciplinary Studies Program,
which is administered by the Director’s
Office.
Internship programs for students
overseen by the Center’s Office of
Special Programs include the Academic
Internship Program, which connects
students with opportunities in the
Worcester and Boston areas; the
Semester Away Program, through
which students can arrange study at
other academic institutions in the
United States and Canada; and the
Washington Semester Program, which
has given students hands-on experience
in a variety of aspects of the work and
life of the nation’s capital. The
Washington internships have ranged
from the White House to the U.S.
Congress, from the American
Enterprise Institute to the Brookings
Institute, from the National Catholic
Reporter to the Holocaust Memorial
Research Center, and news organizations ABC, CBS and CNN.
The experience of Carolyn Howe,
the current director of the Latin
American and Latino Studies concentration, underlines the degree to which
CISS provides an important set of
scholarly and intellectual spaces for faculty, as well as providing an enhanced
range of academic options for students.
“The academic concentrations
offered though CISS provide much
more than an important service to students,” Howe says. “They offer a way
for faculty to find others who share
important intellectual and personal
interests. When I first came to Holy
Cross in 1988, the Latin American
Studies concentration faculty became
my first friends in Worcester. Those of
us who share strong personal, political
and intellectual interests in Latin
America find that we share much more
with each other. We are passionate
about what we do, and we try to share
this passion with student concentrators
and with the Holy Cross community in
general.”
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Howe also points out the dynamic
nature of the CISS concentrations.
“Most recently,” she notes, “the concentration has been renamed the Latin
American and Latino Studies concentration, reflecting the fact that it is
important to include studies about
Latinos in the United States into the
curriculum. A full understanding of
Latinos in the U.S. is not possible
without some understanding of Latin
America, and an important aspect of
Latin American history is the conquest
of the northern one-third of Mexico
during the Mexican-American War of
1845-48 and the migration of so many
of its people to the United States.”
Mary Hobgood, the current director
of Women’s Studies, explains the manner in which CISS expands the intellectual conversation on campus in a
slightly different way. “CISS is important for Women’s Studies,” she argues,
“because it not only promotes interdisciplinary work, it gives spaces to those
who create knowledge from the mar-
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gins. While departments have often
been weighted to reflect the knowledge
produced by the traditional elite, CISS
includes (though it is not exhausted by)
relative newcomers to fields of official
knowledge-making, i.e., white women,
people from diverse communities of
color and poor and working-poor people. Since these folks constitute the
world majority, CISS makes an important contribution.”
Over 30 years after its founding,
CISS continues to grow and change,
both in terms of what it provides to the
campus and what it provides to the
community. Matlak places particular
emphasis on recent developments which
have resulted in further binding of
town-to-gown.
“I’m extremely pleased with the
immediate impact of Community-Based
Learning (C-BL) on our curriculum,
which in its first year has been integrated into over 20 courses in 12 disciplines
and programs—Anthropology, archaeol-
ogy and museum studies, creative writing, composition, History, Sociology,
Women’s Studies, Latin American studies, American Sign Language and Deaf
Studies, Religious Studies, Gerontology,
and Visual Arts.”
“This quite phenomenal success,” he
continues, “is attributable to three
things: the generous gift of alumnus and
Board of Trustee member, Joseph
Donelan ’72, to fund a director’s position in C-BL; to the success of an astute
hiring committee with representatives
from Student Affairs, the Chaplains’
Office, and Academic Affairs, with
input from students working in Student
Affairs—all working patiently and arduously for several months of the summer
to find a candidate who could work successfully with the entire campus community; and, finally, the extraordinary
academic and community experience of
the director hired, William Meinhofer.
Bilingual, of Swiss and Puerto Rican
parentage, with a Ph.D. in sociology
from Boston College, Bill has connected
with the campus community and the
Worcester community with equal effectiveness and aplomb.”
Matlak points to Environmental
Studies major, Maura Nelson, as an
example of how CISS can provide a
place where students can pursue their
passions with exceptional creativity.
“For her capstone project,” Matlak
says, “one might have expected that
Maura would work on an ES issue. She
went in a somewhat different direction,
however. She wanted to do a meta-project on integrative education; in other
words, she wanted to do research on the
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pedagogy behind her educational experience and intellectual growth, to learn if
educational theorists would confirm that
she had taken the right road.”
“To my mind,” Matlak says, “this is
pretty courageous: How many students
would want to know that perhaps they
should have done something other than
what they planned and executed with
care and even love?”
An external confirmation of Nelson’s
educational endeavors came in the form
of a job offer from Menzie-Cura &
Associates, Inc., an environmental consulting firm in Chelmsford, Mass.,
where she will be working on Human
Health and Ecological Risk Assessments.
An Investment in the Life
of the Campus
Holy Cross plans first new residence hall in 35 years
By Paul E. Kandarian
left-to-right: Scott Merrill, director of physical plant; Edward Bond, president of Bond Brothers Inc.; Melissa Murray ’02,
co-chair, SGA; Gerald Volpe ’02, co-chair, SGA; James J. Grogan ’76, Trustee; Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president
of the College; Jacqueline D. Peterson, vice president for student affairs and dean of students; Ann Marie Connolly ’74,
Trustee; Christopher Hill, project architect
Seniority has its privileges.
pus, a realization that stemmed from a retreat two years ago.
“It was one of the priorities that came out of a retreat we
held in June 2000,” Fr. McFarland says, “and is important for
two reasons. One, our residence hall system, although well
maintained and solid, doesn’t provide the kind of facilities students today are looking for, particularly upperclassmen. To
remain competitive, we need that kind of facility.
“Secondly, we want to draw more off-campus students
back on campus,” he says, adding that the way to do that is to
offer apartment-style living as opposed to dormitory
dwellings.
The 85,000-square-foot facility to be built on the lower
part of the College Hill Campus between Loyola and Alumni
Halls will boast 244 beds in 61 two-bedroom apartments,
with each bedroom having two beds.
The brick-faced building will house apartments that will
each have a living room, full kitchen with stove, dishwasher
and garbage disposal, plus a breakfast bar, a bathroom with
And for Holy Cross students entering their fourth year in
September 2003, that privilege will include first-of-its-kind
on-campus residential living.
In the works is a 244-bed, five-story apartment complex
that is unlike any housing options now available at Holy
Cross. And while Alumni, Carlin and Loyola Halls have seen
major renovation projects over the past decade or so, this will
be the first full-fledged residential construction at the College
since 1966 when Mulledy Hall was built.
The $18-million project, which passed city permitting in
March, broke ground in early May. Its primary purpose is to
bring Holy Cross upperclass students back into the College’s
residential fold, officials say. Currently, about 500 of the
school’s 2,800 undergraduates live off campus every year, and
the administration wants to lower that figure.
According to Holy Cross President, Michael C. McFarland,
S.J., it is essential to bring off-campus students back on cam❖ Holy Cross Magazine ❖ Spring 2002
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two sinks and a dining/study area.
The two-wing building will feature
floor-to-ceiling windows in the front and
back of the main entrance area, giving
the building an airy, modern aura, says
Jacqueline Dansler Peterson, vice president for student affairs and dean of students. And, she notes, the center of the
building will also feature a main-floor
multifunction room and stone terraces in
front and back.
Creating apartment-style living is
essential to keeping students on campus,
according to Peterson. A Residential Life
Planning Committee-commissioned
study by Dober, Lidsky, Craig and
Associates Inc., compared Holy Cross to
16 peer colleges—11 of them had residential rates of 90-100 percent, while
Holy Cross lagged far behind at 76 percent.
“When we looked at the things that
contributed to the flight off campus in
the late ’80s and early ’90s, we found
that a limited variety of residential living
spaces, as compared to our competitors,
was significant,” Peterson says. “A student could pretty much come to Holy
Cross as a first-year student and spend
four years living in the same type of
building—dorm-style facilities, with
long corridors.
“We felt it very important to offer
students more variety, especially students
approaching their third and fourth years
who are looking for more independent-
style living—where they can cook for
themselves—as opposed to having 100
people living along a corridor,” she says.
Noting that “it’s nice to have them on
campus,” Peterson adds that in no way is
Holy Cross looking to boost enrollment
by building the apartment complex.
“It was never the objective to increase
enrollment,” she says. “The size we are
works well for the mission of the
College.”
Holy Cross looked at a few areas on
campus to build the apartment complex,
according to Peterson, and decided on
the McKeon Road area for several reasons.
“The site we chose was ideal because
it’s adjacent to upper-class residences and
gives the opportunity to create an upperclass student community,” she explains.
“The building will be a hub for activity
programming for upper-class students.”
Other possible sites near the top of
College Hill, beyond Mulledy Hall, were
considered too remote and isolated from
the main campus, and posed additional
challenges such as the presence of ledge.
Students now seek off-campus living
within a 10-mile radius of the school,
she says, noting that, on both ends of
College Hill, are two popular apartment
complexes, Cambridge Apartments and
Autumn Chase Apartments. The College
itself owns several pieces of property on
nearby Caro Street, which it rents to students.
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Holy Cross
Receives ‘AA-’
Bond Rating
F
itch Investor Services, L.P.
awarded Holy Cross an
‘AA-’ rating for its recent
Revenue Bond, the proceeds
of which will be used for
construction of the new residence hall and parking
garage. In its evaluation Fitch
stated, “The ‘AA-’ rating and
stable outlook reflect College
of the Holy Cross’ steady
enrollment, positive operating performance, substantial
liquidity, minimal deferred
maintenance, and experienced professional management.”
This AA- rating places the
College in good company
with its peer schools and
translates directly into cost
savings, in terms of bond
insurance costs and lower
interest rates.
Connollys keep Holy Cross
connection current
By Mark J. Cadigan
Ann Marie Connolly ’74 and Dick Connolly ’61
T
he decades drift by, but the
sense of connection that Dick
Connolly ’61 and Ann Marie
Connolly ’74 have with Holy Cross
remains passionate.
Ann Marie, a Holy Cross Trustee, is
also vice chair of the Lift High the Cross
Campaign Steering Committee and
chair of the Boston Regional Campaign
Committee. She and Dick, who met at
a President’s Council dinner in the late
’70s and wed in ’82, recently committed
$500,000 to the College’s fund-raising
campaign. In gratitude for the gift and
in recognition of her hard work as a
Trustee on residential life issues, the
College will name the main lobby in the
new residence hall after the Connollys.
“We feel so strongly about Jesuit
education and, in particular, Holy
Cross, that we want to make a difference,” Ann Marie says.
“Knowing everything I know today,
if I could have my choice of any school
in the country, I’d go right back to Holy
Cross,” Dick says, citing the school’s
value system, academic rigors and the
quality of its student body.
The Connollys, who live in Concord,
Mass. with their three sons, Richard III,
Ryan and Kevin, emphasize that the
Jesuits gave them an outstanding education and strengthened their belief in giving back. “We’ve been very fortunate,”
says Ann Marie. “So we try to not only
be supportive financially of institutions
that we care about, but we try to give
our time as well.” In addition to serving
as a religious education teacher at St.
Bernard’s parish, in Concord, for 15
years, and as a governor and development chair at the Concord Museum, she
is a member of the New England
Province Development Committee,
which raises money for New England
apostolates, and the Hestia Fund, a
group of women philanthropists who
provide funding for before- and afterschool programs for inner city youth.
Dick, who has also been involved
with St. Bernard’s, is a director of the
Children’s Medical Research Foundation
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and former trustee of Babson College,
Babson Park, Mass., where he earned an
M.B.A. in ’64. He established a scholarship in his mother’s name at Malden
(Mass.) Catholic High School and has
been involved with Catholic Charities
and the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dick
has also been a member of the board of
trustees at the Fenn School in Concord,
his sons’ grammar school, for seven
years. Former president and board member of the Francis Ouimet Scholarship
Fund—named after the 20-year-old
caddy who won the U.S. Open in
1913—he has run its amateur golf tournament for 23 years.
Dick, 62, was a recipient of the
Ouimet Scholarship, which aids students with economic need who have
given at least three years of service to
golf. He began caddying at age eight
and worked on the greens from age 15
through graduate school. Along the way,
he developed into an ace golfer who was
captain of the Holy Cross team for two
years. Though he did not become the
professional golfer he once envisioned, he continued to play, passing
on his love of the sport to his sons
and becoming friends with Arnold
Palmer.
“He’s not as good as his press clippings,” claims Dick. “He’s better.”
Palmer is also one of Dick’s
accounts at UBS Paine Webber, Inc.,
where he has been a stockbroker in
the Boston office since 1973. Dick
grew up in Woburn, Mass., the son
of Richard, who worked for B.F.
Goodrich, and Ruth, who raised Dick
and his brother, Robert, and worked
part time in a dry cleaning establishment run by Dick’s uncle.
Ann Marie, 50, grew up in
Providence, R. I., the daughter of
Helen, a homemaker, and Edward
Reilly, a Narragansett Electric lineman. She has two brothers, Eddie ’76
and Kevin, and a sister, Helen Boyle.
Transferring to Holy Cross from
Emmanuel College in ’72, she was
among the first wave of young
women to make the school coeducational. As an incoming third-year student, she was asked to be a resident
assistant for the first class of freshman
women; she was then appointed head
R.A. of Mulledy, the College’s first
co-ed residential dorm. “It was a great
leadership opportunity,” she recalls,
noting that associate dean of students, Marilyn Boucher (now Butler),
was “a wonderful mentor, an incredible professional and a phenomenal
human being.”
Ann Marie earned her M.Ed. from
Boston University in ’76 and worked
in the school’s Admissions Office for
several years. She is now a senior consultant with Maguire Associates of
Bedford, Mass., which does market
research for colleges and universities.
Both Ann Marie and Dick are
confident that the Lift High the
Cross effort will achieve its $175 million goal. “I think that for so many of
us, Holy Cross has made a difference
in our lives—personally, spiritually,
professionally,” says Ann Marie. “And
I think that it’s a privilege to give
back to a school that’s given us all so
much.”
left to right: Gerald Volpe ’02, SGA co-chair, 2001-02; John O’Donnell ’04,
SGA co-chair, 2002-03; Tom Maples, project manager, Bond Brothers Inc.;
Brian Doyle ’04, SGA co-chair, 2002-03; Scott Merrill, director, physical plant
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If the new housing goes over well—and officials expect it will—there is room in
the area for future expansion, Peterson says.
In the meantime, she explains, the College will work with current vacancies in
existing residence halls—about 109 this school year—and convert at least some to
single units. Peterson observes that these “have not been an option on this
campus”—a contention supported by the commissioned study that said Holy Cross
has under 5 single units (0-percent) compared to 34-percent single units in the peer
study group.
“If we can convert some of these to singles, we hope to interest at least that group
of students seeking private rooms off campus to stay on campus and be in line for the
new apartments next year,” she says.
Getting students to commit early to on-campus housing is essential, Peterson
explains.
“One thing we found in the study is that students start to make their plans to live
off campus fairly early—some as early as their first year,” she says. “By the second
year, they’re putting deposits on places to move into their third year. We really need
to tap them early and get them interested in staying on campus.”
For at least the first year of the new apartment building, residence will be restricted to fourth-year students. “After that,” Peterson says, “we’ll see how it goes.”
In addition to the apartment building, the project will include construction of a
parking garage near the facility, she says, with up to five floors that will provide
approximately 432 parking spaces. Slated for construction on the existing Carlin
parking lot site, the new garage will create 300 new spaces on campus.
Holy Cross is financing the project upfront with a tax-exempt bond issue, says
William R. Durgin, the College’s vice president for business affairs and treasurer—
with the hope that the College will generate enthusiastic support from its ongoing
capital campaign drive to raise money to support the facility and keep costs at affordable levels.
In the meantime, the undercurrent of excitement at the College about the new
apartment building gives the College an advantage in lining up students to live there,
Peterson says.
“Some students (entering their fourth year this fall) are lamenting, ‘great, this happens just when I’m leaving,’ while others are counting the time until 2003, when they
can live there,” she says. “It’s important to have that kind of excitement.”
Paul E. Kandarian is a free-lance journalist from Taunton, Mass.
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Back to School:
For His Sons’ Sake
G
raduating senior Ed
Dilworth has a
longer list of professional accomplishments than his peers in the Class of
2002. He has started and run
advertising agencies, interactive
agencies, and most recently, begun
an entertainment company, focusing on animation and cartoons. To
be fair, he has had a bit more time
to achieve than his classmates.
He first came to Holy Cross in
the fall of 1980 but left in the middle of his senior year. He returned
some 17 years later, in the fall of
2001, to complete his degree. In
the stands, at commencement, will
be his wife Michele and his two
sons—Patrick, 2 ½ and Edmond,
1—who, together, are the main
reason he decided to return and
finish his degree.
“When my sons were born,”
Dilworth recalls, “I was reminded
of how obsessed I was when I was
little about my father’s life when he
was younger, and it made me think
that if I was going to be able to tell
my own boys things like, ‘you need
to finish what you start,’ or ‘it’s
important to do things the right
way,’ then I needed to take a shot
at finishing at Holy Cross.”
The first time around, he says,
the timing just wasn’t right. “While
the reasons for my departure were
administrative and, in hindsight,
pretty silly, I shouldn’t have been in
school at that time, anyway. I was
completely without motivation academically. While I went on to
attend other schools, it was not
until I returned this past year that I
really had any appreciation for
going to school.”
Dilworth ’02
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Dilworth with Professor Robert Cording
Fall semester 2001 was
come back ready to campaign
a radically different experifor changes that would make
ence. “All the professors
the school more supportive of
were great,” Dilworth says.
the students; he found that he
“And the students were
was preaching to the convertamazingly engaged—really
ed.
bright and involved, much
“The school had comdifferent than I remember
pletely changed and was very
it. But then, I was a bit
active in students’ lives. The
out of it when I was here
Assistant Deans’ Office was a
originally.”
big change, for example, and
He was particularly
a welcome one. The student
taken with Professor Bob
life group was also very active
Cording’s course on “The
in making sure that I was set,
Bible as Literature.” “It
and that everything was going
would be a dramatic
well for me. And that contact
understatement to say I
was consistent throughout the
just enjoyed it. This course
semester.”
was a life changer, not
The student population
only for me but for a
had changed as well. And, as
number of other students
Dilworth sees it, “The school
as well. It should be a
is significantly better for hav‘must take’ for every stuing a broader range of student before they gradudents than it had 20 years
ate.”
ago.”
Cording returns the
If the academic and persentiment. “I loved havsonal timing was better this
ing Ed in class,” he says.
time around, the com“He brought his lifelong
mute was rather more
quest for meaning—the
strenuous: “I took the
sense that the life of the
red eye in from San
spirit and the spiritual
Francisco on Monday
search for meaning doesn’t
nights and returned on
begin and end by the time you leave college;
Thursday afternoons
rather it’s a lifetime’s work.”
after class. I did that
“It was also pretty amazing,” Dilworth adds,
every week for the
“to be taking a ‘Politics of The Middle East’ class
semester.”
during the Sept. 11 attack.”
Dilworth’s comAssistant Professor Vickie Langohr, in the
pleting his degree is
department of political science, who taught the
not likely to do much
course, remembers him as a student who brought
to change his professtrong analytical skills to the classroom:
sional standing. On a
“His business world experience showed clearly,”
personal level, howLangohr says. “I remember that at one point we
ever, both for himwere discussing the vague terms of a U.N. resoluself and for his
tion on the Middle East, and I asked why both pargrowing family, his
ties, the Palestinian and the Israeli, might be unsatisachievement will
fied with the resolution; Ed said that if you comlikely mean more to
pared it to a business contract, you could see that the
him now than it
resolution didn’t mean much, that it said things like
would have in the
‘may’ and ‘should’ and didn’t give any enforceable
spring of 1984.
rights. If this were for my business, he said, I’d insist
“I guess in
k
ic
and Patr
sons, Edmond
ith
on a renegotiation in clearer terms.”
short
I returned
w
th
or
ilw
D
Michele
Coming back after an absence of almost 20 years,
because I hated
Dilworth was surprised not only by how he had
the parts of my past and myself that led to leaving
changed as a student but also by changes in the institution as
Holy Cross. In order to purge them and demonstrate to my
well. A variety of support structures that were put into place
sons and maybe myself the right way to do things, I felt the
in the 1980s and 1990s were particularly noteworthy. He had
need to return.”
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Book Notes
R
ob Sullivan ’89 is the author of Getting Your Foot in the Door When You Don’t
Have a Leg to Stand On (Contemporary Books, 2001), a step-by-step guide
through the entire career search process. Using self-assessment exercises,
résumé guidelines, interviewing strategies and techniques for salary negotiation,
Sullivan delivers a new model for the job hunt. Al Roehl, executive vice president of
Leo Burnett Company, says the book is “the best work on this subject I have ever
come across. I even think some of the advice is “applicable for life and not just an
interview.”
Sullivan has worked as vice president and senior consultant at Carpenter
Associates, Inc., an executive search firm. A Chicago resident, he is currently a freelance writer and speaker on job hunting, career changing, executive recruitment and
interview training.
H
ouston Oilers: The Early Years (Eakin Press, 2001) by Kevin Carroll ’72 is the
story of one football team’s tumultuous early history. Tracing the Oilers’
story from the summer of 1960, when hundreds of young men arrived in
Houston to try out for a new team in a new league, Carroll details the days when the
players’ salaries averaged $9,500 a year and air-conditioned astrodomes were just a
dream. Packed with stories of 5’7” running backs and 153-pound safeties, the book
conveys how this colorful franchise won the first championship of the American
Football League.
Carroll, a lifelong football fan, played for the Crusaders during his years at Holy
Cross. A history teacher and football coach at Albuquerque Academy, he lives with his
wife, Linda, and their two daughters in New Mexico.
R
obert G. Stevenson ’67 is the editor of What Will We Do: Preparing a School
Community to Cope with Crises (Baywood Publishing, 2002), a guidebook
for educators and parents who wish to understand the importance of preand post-intervention programs in our schools. The book examines the scope and
effect of programs that target such issues as loss, illness, death, grief, war and violence. Presenting specific steps that can help a school community cope with a variety
of crisis situations, the book has been utilized by educators around the world to create crisis-response programs.
Stevenson holds graduate degrees from Montclair State University and Fairleigh
Dickinson University. He has published over 60 articles on loss and grief in professional journals and texts and has edited several books, including Teaching Students
about Death (Charles Press, 1966).
R
ev. Robert F. Slesinski ’72 is the author of three new books, The Search for
Knowledge: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge; A General
Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature; and The Search for Understanding:
An Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics. All three books, published by the
Salesian Center of Don Bosco Publishers, Gatchina, Russia, grew out of Fr.
Slesinski’s experience teaching at the Russian Seminary and at Mary, Mother of the
Church Seminary, Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The books provide a general overview of
the philosophical issues involved in their respective areas.
Fr. Slesinski, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian
University in Rome, specializes in Russian religious philosophical thought.
These books are available from the Holy Cross Bookstore.
Phone: (508)-793-3609. E-mail: [email protected]. If you mention that you read
about these titles in Holy Cross Magazine, the bookstore will offer free shipping!
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A Fitting Tribute
The Renovation of Mary Chapel
By Paul E. Kandarian
W
hen John Figge
’59 and his
wife, Pat, traveled with
Robert H.
McCooey ’52 and his wife, Mary, a
church was always part of the journey.
“Whenever we’d stop, Bob would say,
‘I wonder if there’s a church around,’”
says Figge of his best friend and brotherin-law who died last year.
Daily Mass wasn’t always a part of
Figge’s life, he admits, “but because of
Bob, it became part of my life.”
So deep was the friendship between
the men that the Figges decided to
memorialize Bob McCooey by donating
$2 million to renovate the College’s
Mary Chapel, located in the basement of
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel. One of the
smaller interior chapels will be named
the McCooey Chapel, Figge says, in a
fitting tribute to a very religious man.
“When we committed to this gift,
they said to think of what I’d like to
memorialize,” Figge says. “It could have
been ‘Figge this’ or ‘Figge that,’ but that
didn’t sit well with me. Then Bob died,
and I thought, ‘Here’s a gift that’s perfect for him.’ It’s a perfect way to honor
Bob and his Catholic faith.”
The Holy Cross tradition runs deeply
in both the Figge and McCooey families. Mary McCooey and Patricia Figge
are sisters, part of the extensive Joyce
clan. Two of their brothers are graduates
of the College—Thomas ’59 and
Timothy ’69—and two of their sisters,
Bonnie and Cathleen, married Holy
Cross graduates. Four of John and Pat
Figge’s children—and four of Bob and
Mary McCooey’s children—attended the
College. Three of the Figge children
married Holy Cross alumni, as did the
McCooeys’ eldest child. On the Joyce
side of the family, there are no fewer
than 15 more Holy Cross alumni.
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Beyond the gift of memorializing a
true friend, Figge says he also made the
donation “because of the wonderful
experience I and my family had at Holy
Cross.”
“There was no doubt Holy Cross
truly formed my father,” says Robert
McCooey Jr. ’87. “His moral being was
already formed, but it was strengthened
at Holy Cross.”
McCooey Sr.’s mantra was “I choose
to follow Jesus,” his son says, adding
that it is on his tombstone. “He truly
loved Holy Cross and appreciated not
only the kind of education he received,
but more importantly the development
of the Christian man that was produced
there.”
While the Holy Cross tradition in the
family is vast, for the McCooey children
it was their decision to make as to what
school they would attend, says Mark
McCooey ’89.
Spring 2002 ❖ Lift High the Cross
left to right: Pat and John Figge ’59 with Mary and Bob McCooey ’52
Lift High the Cross
“Dad encouraged us but did not
accommodate the student body at
additional restrooms will augment the
force us to attend—he let us make our
required daily Masses. The Mary Chapel
two that currently serve the entire
own choices,” McCooey says of his sibwas furnished with seating for 800, an
chapel.
lings; four of six of them opted for Holy
altar and lectern of Italian marble, 20
“The result will be a well integrated
Cross. “We really felt a great attachment
side altars, four confessionals, and a
and aesthetically pleasing variety of
to Holy Cross. It was a very easy decichoir area.
spaces that will have a major impact on
sion to make.”
“The current configuration of the
religious life on campus,” Covino says.
Bob McCooey Jr. and his dad coMary Chapel reflects the needs of stu“We have a treasure of underused square
founded The Griswold Company in
dents and the liturgy of the Catholic
footage that feels very much like a baseNew York City in 1988, a brokerage
Church 50 years ago,” says Paul Covino,
ment now, but the renovation will give
firm where Bob is chief executive officer
Holy Cross associate chaplain and direcHoly Cross beautiful space that will be
and president and Mark is managing
tor of liturgy. “Today, the Church’s liturwell used.”
director—a company that has become
gy has gone through a process of reform
As of this writing, no timetable as to
one of the largest independent brokerage
and requires a different kind of space.
completion of the renovation to Mary
firms on the New York Stock Exchange.
Students’ spiritual activities have
Chapel has been established.
The elder McCooey himself was a NYSE
changed as well.”
Of the $2 million Figge gift making
member for 46 years, starting his career
Renovation will bring new life to
the chapel renovation possible, Covino
on Wall Street as an independent broker
many areas of the lower chapel that
adds, “This gift and this project are signs
and later working as a specialist for
haven’t seen activity in years. Liturgies of
of the religious vitality of Holy Cross.
Henderson Brothers.
various sizes will be accommodated in a
You don’t do this in an institution that is
As to the gift that his Uncle John
mid-sized chapel that will be created in
moving away from its religious roots.”
made to Holy Cross to renovate the
much of the area currently occupied by
The gift of a renovated chapel could
lower level of the chapel, Bob says,
pews and in a smaller chapel that will
be no more appropriate nor appreciated,
“That’s most fitting, since the chapel is
replace the current sanctuary. The side
says Mary, McCooey’s wife of 37 years.
where Dad felt most comfortable. He
alcoves will be re-opened, restoring the
“Daily Mass was Bob’s whole life,” she
spent a good portion of his life (at Holy
original arched walkway around the
explains. “It’s a most fitting tribute to
Cross) there, sometimes going to Mass a
perimeter. The statue of Our Lady of
him and unbelievably generous.”
couple of times a day.
Montserrat will be relocated to a more
Her husband, who always advised
“Having a place that will always be
prominent location, and all spaces will
people wanting to get married that “you
there as a reminder to family and alumni
be made handicapped accessible. Much
work at marriage every day in every
and future generations of someone truly
needed storage space will be created, and
dedicated to the
Lord, that is the perfect gift,” he says.
The lower level of
St. Joseph Memorial
Chapel has served
Holy Cross in a variety of ways since the
chapel was built in
1924. It was first
used as an auditorium and in the 1940s
as space for the
Naval ROTC, complete with monumental cannons in
side alcoves that later
housed altars.
In 1955, Holy
Cross President Rev.
William Donaghy,
S.J., had the lower
level converted to a
second student
The McCooey clan (left to right): Kevin, Timothy ’91, Mary Catherine ’92, Bob ’52, Mary (Joyce), Mark ’89, Kristine
chapel because the
upper space could not (Grimm) ’89, Michael, and Robert Jr. ’87
Lift High the Cross ❖ Spring 2002
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A few moments with
Bill Doran ’77
Doran’s gift of $550,000 to the campaign
brings the total amount raised to more than
$100 million.
What lessons did you learn as an athlete
at Holy Cross?
The ones that stick out in my mind are: be
prepared, work hard, do things the right
way, work together as a team and, lastly,
have fun. Those lessons and values have been
very important in my career at Morgan
Stanley. I am part of an outstanding trading
group that incorporates these values, which
has contributed to our success.
What did you think of the Holy Cross vs.
Kansas game?
I watched the game with many other HC
alumni, which was a great deal of fun. The
game was very exciting, and the team played
tremendously. I called my wife, Susan, at halftime, and we agreed
that the family would all go to St. Louis for the next round, but
unfortunately they fell a little short. Overall, I am very excited
about what the basketball team has accomplished over the last two
years. They have won two Patriot League titles and have taken two
top-ranked teams to the limit in the NCAA Tournament. Coach
Willard has done an outstanding job, and I believe Holy Cross is
in a great position to build on these successes. For many of the
alumni of my era, this is a very welcome development.
What are your hopes for your gift to the Lift High the Cross
Campaign?
We do not have a specific goal for the gift yet. Ideally, we would
like something that is targeted toward both academics and athletics, because it was the overall Holy Cross experience that I appreciated. I wanted to make a contribution to the College because it is
a great school with great people, and it did a lot for me. Many of
my closest friends are still the people I met at Holy Cross. The
camaraderie and bond between Holy Cross students, faculty,
administration and alumni is very special and the envy of other
colleges. We need to continue to leverage this to help Holy Cross
reach its tremendous potential.
Bill ’77 and Susan Doran with their daughters, Gabrielle, Isabel and
Olivia
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Enriching Diversity at
Holy Cross
Members of the ALANA Recruitment Initiative in the Admissions Office at Holy Cross (left to
right): Lee Rosario, Ann McDermott ’79, Anabel Paniagua-Villalobos, and Kevin Fudge
By Maria Healy
way” and practiced what he preached,
had a “capacity for mixing humor with
his own spirituality,” she adds. “He was
a very funny man and was just very
comfortable in his religion.”
Holy Cross had a lasting impact on
McCooey’s life that is still being felt, she
says. The family is building a new home
and over the dining room will be
inscribed the words, “When a guest
comes, Christ comes,” the same words
gracing Kimball Hall at Holy Cross.
“That was something Bob always
felt,” she says. “So it’s going into our
new home.”
What made Holy Cross such an inte-
gral part of Bob McCooey Sr.’s life made
it the same for his children.
“Dad said college should be eight
years—four years of study, four years of
forming friendships and being with people, interacting with them,” says Bob Jr.
“He felt it very important that not
everyone’s life was found in a book—it
was found in people, at Mass or the
library, out with your friends. He was
very big on the community of Holy
Cross and the way it didn’t have the
overriding attitude of grandeur you get
at some larger schools.”
According to Mark McCooey, his
dad taught him “Fifty percent of what
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you learn in class, 50 percent of what
you learn outside of class, makes you a
well-rounded person. It’s not about one
or the other, but both.”
Bob McCooey Sr.’s funeral last
November had an impressive contingency of Holy Cross alumni in the
assembly; and Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J.
’49, president emeritus; Rev. Francis
Miller, S.J. ’47, vice president emeritus;
and former president, Rev. Gerard
Reedy, S.J., served on the altar. Many
people were astounded by the sheer volume of McCooey’s charitable works. He
served in a variety of volunteer capacities for churches, schools and
I
n a statement to the Holy
Cross community outlining
the aspirations of the Lift
High the Cross Campaign,
Rev. Michael C. McFarland,
S.J., writes that a commitment to
Holy Cross requires a “rethinking of
what it means to be a Jesuit school
in the 21st century.” Addressing the
issues of Catholicism, education and
contemporary society, the question
becomes: Where and how does a
Catholic liberal arts college fit into
the rich and overwhelming diversity
of today’s America?
There is the critical need, not
only for respect, understanding and
compassion among all people, but
also for colleges to educate students
in the broadest sense. To meet its
responsibility to students, a successful college must effectively serve as a
microcosm of the larger society,
preparing young men and women
not only intellectually and professionally for life in the world, but
socially, culturally and spiritually as
well. And in the case of Holy Cross,
the challenge is even greater. How
does the College do all of the above
and stay true to the original intention and identity of the Jesuits? As
Fr. McFarland goes on to ask, “How
does Holy Cross foster a common
culture and set of values in a diverse
world?”
The answer, it seems, is in giving.
Based on two gifts of one million
dollars each from B.J. ’55 and Bebe
Cassin, and John ’73 and Monica
Murphy P’99, Holy Cross is riding a
surge of momentum and credibility
in terms of increasing the minority
presence on campus. Through a
growing network of outreach work
in collaboration with on-campus
programs, such as the Diversity Task
Force, and the ALANA (African
American, Latino, Asian, Native
American) Recruitment Initiative,
the College’s goal not only to recruit
and retain students of color, but also
to cultivate a college where both
majority and minority students
become wholly educated people, is
becoming a reality.
“I had a great education,” says
B.J. Cassin, who majored in economics at Holy Cross and served in
the Marine Corps for five years,
making captain during that time. He
has gone on to become a highly successful venture capitalist in
California as well as a two-term
chairman of the board of trustees of
St. Mary’s College in Moraga,
California. Cassin is also a philanthropist with a vision for educational
opportunity. His gifts are designed
not only to provide education to
underprivileged people of color but
also to enhance the established academic communities of the majority.
hospitals—a course of life that was just
the way he lived it, his sons say.
“He didn’t give his name to charity
just to give his name,” Bob Jr. says. “He
was involved in each and every one; he
was committed to them and was going
to be actively involved in fund raising
and management, or whatever it took to
make it the best hospital, the best
school, the best charity of any kind.”
And he did it, he says, “without fanfare or monument—he wasn’t looking
for any of that. His glory would be with
God at the end of his life. He felt there
was no need for anything else along the
way.”
B. J. ’55 and Bebe Cassin
The monument that will exist now,
in the form of McCooey Chapel, is a fitting one, John Figge says, of a man who
was a great listener and a great friend for
more than 40 years.
“Bob was a special person in my
life,” Figge says simply. “He was an
exemplary Catholic, and he became not
only my friend, but my role model.”
Paul E. Kandarian is a free-lance writer
from Taunton, Mass.
Bob McCooey ’52
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According to foundation
director, Jeff Thielman, the
Cassin Educational Initiative
Foundation, created by Cassin
and his wife in 2000, works
with religious orders, dioceses,
parishes and other groups to
establish faith-based collegepreparatory middle schools and
high schools in economically
challenged areas throughout
the country. Cassin’s gift,
Thielman explains, was
prompted by affection for his
alma mater and “concerns
about the lack of diversity at
prestigious colleges like Holy
Cross. Mr. Cassin feels that
these schools need to catch up
to become better schools.”
Through his grants and
efforts, Cassin is providing
opportunities to the poor while
creating minority links to colleges such as Holy Cross. “The
mission (of the gift) is such
that we want to make (education) available to those who
qualify and show the potential
to be successful at Holy Cross,”
says Thielman. At the same
time, “Holy Cross students
should be exposed to the real
world, because in four years,
they’re going to be dealing with
a business world that’s almost
completely color blind. For
Holy Cross graduates to not
have that exposure (to minorities) in their training is a void
in the responsibility the school
has to its students.”
John Murphy ’73, enjoys a
successful career in the private
equity business in New York,
investing for years in radio stations, newspapers, and television production companies, as
well as the for-profit education
business. His firm is the largest
shareholder of Mosaica
Education, Inc., the nation’s
third largest charter school
management company, operating 21 charter schools in six
states and the District of
Columbia. There are 12,000
students and 1,000 teachers
and staff.
As Murphy tells it, Holy
Cross has given generously to
him and his wife, Monica.
They met while he was a student at Holy Cross. The
College is the source of many
of their longstanding friendships. Their son, Dylan, is a
graduate of the Class of 1999.
Throughout the years, Holy
Cross has supported the family’s faith. During the trustees’
retreat a year and a half ago,
the Murphys decided that they
wanted to give back to the
College, not only to recognize
“Holy Cross’ preeminence and
its uniqueness as a Catholic,
Jesuit, liberal arts college,” but
also to support its roots, its
mission, “to educate the children of immigrants.”
Combining a desire to promote diversity with their
involvement in Nativity
Schools, most of which are
influenced and supported by
the Jesuits and focus on populations that have traditionally
fallen behind, dropped out, or
been left out of the educational
system, the Murphys decided
to endow a scholarship at Holy
Cross to be awarded each year
to students who attended any
of the 36 Nativity-model
schools in the United States.
The original Nativity Mission
Center is in Manhattan, where
Murphy is chairman of the
board. Murphy sees this as an
“ideal way” to continue to support these students and enrich
diversity at Holy Cross.
Alumni donations not only
ensure the continuation of
quality education, they allow
the College “to be creative,” as
Fr. McFarland says. With
tuition income and the annual
fund going to pay salaries and
ongoing costs, gifts from alumni help to establish new
resources as well as expand and
solidify established ones, giving
them priority status, as is the
case with The ALANA
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Recruitment Initiative. The
concept and dedication behind
the recruitment of students of
color has been present at Holy
Cross for years, but it wasn’t
until these recent gifts that the
program attained the level of a
formal initiative, elevating its
overall scope and resources,
allowing the program to come
into its own.
ALANA Recruitment, two of
the new additions to the program, take as their primary
focus “becoming a presence.”
For Fudge, whose particular
territory is the diocesan schools
in Boston, this means constantly visiting the schools, spreading enthusiasm and the story of
Holy Cross among the students
and performing various servic-
John ’73 and Monica Murphy P’99
Due to Cassin’s gift, Ann
Bowe McDermott ’79, director
of admissions, has been able to
enhance her staff significantly,
hiring three additional people
to cover more ground at both
the local and national levels
more effectively, and getting
Holy Cross on the radar as “a
known option, a college of
choice,” among high schools
with minority populations
across the entire country.
With the ultimate goal
being the establishment of sustained “pipelines” between
Holy Cross and these high
schools—including not only
students but also their counselors, who ideally become
advocates of the College—
Kevin Fudge, the assistant
director for Community
Outreach, and Anabel
Paniagua-Villalobos, the assistant director for National
es. In tandem with school
counselors, he holds workshops
for parents about the application process and the fine points
of filling out financial aid
forms, a consistent source of
frustration and confusion,
where the potential for lost students is high.
Paniagua-Villalobos travels
nationwide, visiting cities with
diverse populations, also developing a Holy Cross presence in
the schools, but targeting community-based agencies as
well—groups like A Better
Chance or Upward Bound—
that identify high school students with potential early on
and provide support and
encouragement, so that college
becomes a real option.
Developing a database of such
agencies is a particular focus of
Paniagua-Villalobos’, thus
allowing Holy Cross to contin-
ing results.
ue to track stuDovetailing nicely with this
“We can
dents and cultiinflux of minority students are
carry out the
vate these relaboth a pledge on the part of the things we’ve
tionships.
Supporting
administration to match Cassin’s always wanted to do but
both these posigrant—spending a million dolwere purely
tions is Lee
limited by
Rosario who
lars over four years in increased
works at the cenfinancial aid—and the Murphys’ manpower,”
McDermott
ter of the initiasays. “The
tive, coordinating scholarship, which is a great
Cassins’ gift
efforts such as the incentive to a student who wants
is incredibly
databases and
to go to college. ...
valuable and
serving as point
has already
person for famimade an enormous impact. We have 30
lies who visit on the Recruitment
ALANA students in the early decision
Weekend.
pool already. Compare that to the last
In addition to the outreach positions,
three years, where there were 31 total.”
Cassin’s gift allowed the Office of
“There is a critical mass that needs to
Admissions to hire several ALANA stube attained at the College before it has a
dents and an intern who perform a varisense of validity to it,” confirms Weiss.
ety of tasks, manning the phones, fol“And the Cassins’ grant is really going to
lowing up with students missing credenmake the most obvious change in numtials on applications, and arranging hosts
bers.”
for prospective students who want to
Joe Reilly ’55, a longtime friend of
visit Holy Cross.
Cassin’s, who heads the Bishop Healy
Inviting large numbers of students
Committee, a program designed to cultiand their parents to spend several days at
vate alumni in the effort to foster interHoly Cross, seeing the campus, sitting in
racial relations at Holy Cross, cites the
on classes, as well as touring Worcester,
increase in minority students from 8 peris yet another dimension of the
cent to 12 percent in the past four years
Recruitment Initiative, one allowed by
as a sign that the commitment to minorCassin’s gift. Charles Weiss, director of
ity recruitment at Holy Cross is in place.
grants and corporate and foundation givReilly urges that the new goal become
ing, speaks of the value of a far-sighted,
25 percent (630-650 minority students,
far-reaching approach to recruiting
where now it’s 323), which would be
minority students.
more reflective of the minority presence
“My sense is that if you have a good
in the overall population. He confirms
story to tell, and you know how to tell a
how valuable alumni pledges are to this
story, people will listen. We have a very
end.
good story to tell at Holy Cross. We
“When alumni who can see clearly,
want to bring students’ counselors and
think logically and are generous get
teachers here as well, so they too can get
involved with an effort such as this, it
a sense and have the continuity, working
can make the difference between success
with (prospective) students over and over
and failure,” says Reilly.
again. This is a place of remarkably
Dovetailing nicely with this influx of
strong academics, and we here know
minority students are both a pledge on
this, but students in California may not
the part of the administration to match
have heard of Holy Cross. We want to
Cassin’s grant—spending a million doltell them that students who come here
lars over four years in increased financial
join a family for life, that this is a very
aid—and the Murphys’ scholarship,
supportive environment that can help
which is a great incentive to a student
them—not only in terms of having an
who wants to go to college, has the
extended family all over the country, but
potential to do well, has heard the story
it can be helpful in careers.”
of Holy Cross, but who may be daunted
The overall effect of this collaboraor discouraged by tuition costs. While
tion is a rejuvenated dedication to
Weiss hopes that other generous alumni
recruitment, and significant, encourag-
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will make donations in the form of scholarships, McDermott makes the point that
being able both to admit and fund students is crucial to the overall recruitment
effort. She credits alumni gifts with allowing the College to continue to do that.
“That’s actually what this campaign
going forward is all about,” says
McDermott—“to enable us to continue to
meet need, so that we’re a realistic choice
for any and all students.”
How does a Jesuit college position itself
in the 21st century? Simply becoming a
“realistic choice” may be one answer.
Combining generosity, faith and a commitment to provide a quality education in
all aspects of life for any student willing to
work hard and better him or herself may
be the goal for which to strive. The effort,
it seems, reaps both actual results and the
inspiration to keep trying.
As Charles Weiss says, “Knowing the
commitment of the College, we’re going to
have a new day here.”
Maria Healy is a free-lance journalist from
Northampton, Mass.
Campaign News Briefs
For the Argiz Family,
Education is Priority
F
or Antonio Argiz P’02, a
Cuban exile, education has
always been a top priority.
Argiz graduated from Florida
International University in 1974 and
became a certified public accountant in
1977. Now his daughter and oldest
child, Carolina, will graduate from
Holy Cross. Tony and his wife,
Conchy, have been so pleased with
Carolina’s experience at Holy Cross,
that they have committed $50,000 to
the Lift High the Cross campaign. The
Argiz are delighted to be a part of the
Holy Cross community, and have, for
the past two years, invited alumni and
parents into their home for the Miami
area alumni receptions.
Tony is an audit partner in the
Miami, Fla., accounting firm Morrison,
Brown, Argiz & Co. He has received a
number of awards for his technical
skills and has served on many boards,
including the National Governing
Council of the AICPA, the Board of
Governors of the FICPA and the
National Steering Committee of
Lending Services of AFAi. He is a
board member of the Florida Foster
Care Review Project, Inc., past
chairman of the board of trustees of
the Carrollton School of the Sacred
Heart and is currently the chair of
the United Way Campaign of
Miami-Dade County. He and
Conchy live in Coral Gables, Fla.,
with their sons, Antonio and Andy.
Gary Carskaddan, director of
parent giving, says, “Tony and
Conchy are warm and enthusiastic
parents who have clearly been
pleased with Holy Cross. They
want to stay close to the College.
As advocates for Holy Cross in the
Miami area, they have hosted over
100 alumni and parents in their
home. I am very grateful to them.”
Moran ’77
Creates Merit
Scholarship
M
ary Coffey Moran ’77
has established the F.
Grant Waite and Mary
Coffey Moran ’77 Merit Scholarship
with a gift of $500,000. F. Grant
Waite, her partner whom she seeks to
memorialize with this gift, died in
September 2001 after a short battle
with cancer. Waite, a certified public
The Argiz Family: Carolina ’02, Conchy, Andy, Antonio and Tony
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Mary Coffey Moran ’77
accountant, was an avid sportsman and
tennis player. His great great uncle was
the 18th president of the United States,
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Mary Coffey Moran majored in economics at the College and received a
master of science degree in accounting
from Northeastern University. She
worked as a certified public accountant
for Peat Marwick & Co., before
becoming senior vice president of
Boston Sand & Gravel Co. Currently
working as a consultant, Moran lives in
Andover, Mass.
Merit-based scholarships, which
include tuition and fees, are awarded by
the Admissions Office to students of
exceptional academic potential—or
who possess unusually strong talents.
Merit scholarships allow the College to
compete more effectively for highachieving students who could not consider Holy Cross without scholarship
support.
Holy Cross. It needs the College’s serious and critical commitment to the liberal arts, to the Church, and to excellence in undergraduate teaching.”
The Phelan Family
Phelan Committed
to the Core
W
illiam J. Phelan ’73 is
described by his friend
and classmate John
Murphy ’73 as being deeply involved in
and committed to Holy Cross, his community in Fairfield County, and the
Catholic Church. “Bill has a great love
of Holy Cross and has been an active
supporter with his time and his talents,
his financial resources, and three of his
children thus far! His energy and enthusiasm for Holy Cross and the Jesuit mission is infectious.” Phelan, a partner in
the law firm Phelan & Mitri in
Stamford, Conn., is a Benefactor’s
Circle member of President’s Council, a
member of the New York Leadership
Council, and the New York Regional
Campaign Committee. He and his wife,
Patricia P’04, ’01, ’99, have made an
unrestricted gift of $100,000 to the
campaign.
Two of the Phelans’ daughters, Kate
and Peg, are Holy Cross graduates, and
their son Bill is in his second year at the
College. Phelan says, “Holy Cross is
part of who I am, and I am fortunate to
have been able to share the College with
my children. It is striking how much of
what is at the core of Holy Cross has
not changed since I graduated 29 years
ago.” The Phelan family lives in New
Canaan, Conn., and also includes Mary
Patricia, a graduate of Providence
College, and John, 12.
On giving to Holy Cross, Phelan
says, “My wife, Pat, and I made our gift
because we believe in Holy Cross. We
are privileged to be part of this institution and support its work and its goals.
I strongly believe that our society needs
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P. C. Attendance
Forces New Format
B
ecause annual attendance at
the President’s Council dinner has shot well above 800
people in recent years, the current format—one large dinner for all members
held in Kimball—is no longer workable.
According to Paul Sheff, vice president
for development and alumni relations,
“It has become increasingly difficult to
provide a high-quality experience for
members given the sizeable attendance.
In addition, fire code regulations prohibit seating more than 900 people in
Kimball, and dinner attendance has
nearly reached that mark.”
After studying a variety of alternative
options, a decision was made that
beginning in the fall of 2002, the
President will host two annual dinners
on campus for President’s Council
members. As is the current tradition, the dinners will be a
part of a Saturday-Sunday weekend, scheduled, if possible,
around a home football game.
One dinner will be held for President’s Council members
at the junior and patron levels. This event will be held in
Kimball Hall. The Junior and Patron members’ weekend is
scheduled for Nov. 2-3, 2002. A second dinner will be held
for members at the Distinguished, Regent and Benefactor’s
Circle levels. This event will be held in Hogan Ballroom during the weekend of Nov. 9-10, 2002. If there are questions,
members may contact Patricia Gibbons Haylon at (508)
793-2369 or by e-mail at [email protected].
The Reunion Gift:
What Counts?
D
uring the Lift High the Cross campaign, all gifts
and pledges made during a reunion year, prior
to June 30, will count toward a class’s reunion
gift total.
The net effect of this rule is that the College will now
keep track of three figures during a reunion year: cash gifts
to the Holy Cross Fund, cash gifts to all other purposes, and
pledge balances.
With this rule in effect immediately and extending
through June 2006, every class will have an opportunity to
set a record in the year of its reunion, because all classes will
have a reunion between June of 2002 and 2006. At the end
of the campaign, the total each class has pledged and contributed during the entirety of the campaign will be tabulated and announced.
New Faces
There are several new faces in the Holy Cross Fund. The new
director, Sr. Rita Sturwold, SND, CFRE (front and center) came
to Holy Cross from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, where she
was assistant superintendent for development. Jennifer Baker
(second from left) was membership and operations manager at
the Museum of Transportation in Brookline, Mass. before joining the fund as an assistant director. Leigh Mikulka ’00 (second
from the right) is also a new assistant director, returning to alma
mater after working as a consultant for Winter, Wyman & Co.
Anne Carraher (far right), the new secretary, is a 2000 graduate
of Regis College. Seasoned associate directors Ed Burgess ’78
(center) and James Dyer ’95 (left) predict that the 55th annual
Holy Cross Fund drive will reach or exceed its goal of $6.4 million and 52% alumni participation.
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Ray Bruttomesso
“the luckiest guy
in the world”
By Phyllis Hanlon
Susan and Ray Bruttomesso ’56
E
ven though Ray
Bruttomesso’s schedule
keeps him busy these
days—he is father of
five and grandfather of 12, a practicing
certified public accountant and attorney, a member of Holy Cross’
President’s Council and frequent traveler to Europe as well as to various
locations stateside—he always makes
time to think of his alma mater. Fond
memories, overwhelming gratitude
and love of the College have prompted
him to support the institution morally
and financially through the years.
Bruttomesso ’56 credits good fortune for all that he has. The son of
first generation American parents who
never had the chance to attend high
school, Bruttomesso didn’t anticipate
that college, especially one as prestigious as Holy Cross, would be part of
his life plan. However, a generous
employer in his home state of
Connecticut enabled him, through
scholarship, to achieve his academic
dreams. As the recipient of significant
financial aid for his college education,
Bruttomesso has
always felt a responsibility to repay the
kindness shown him.
In a spirit of gratitude, he has initiated
several scholarships,
particularly for students in Connecticut
who are interested in
attending Holy Cross.
Lady luck continued to smile upon
Bruttomesso after
graduation. Through
persistence and destiny, he secured a full
scholarship from the
Wharton School of Business, where he
earned his MBA. A short while later, a
providential meeting at a friend’s wedding with Holy Cross Jesuit, Fr.
McFadden, inspired him to enroll fulltime at Boston College. With Father
McFadden’s help he received a full
scholarship; his education at BC
resulted in a law degree.
“Primarily, I consider myself the
luckiest guy in the world,” says
Bruttomesso. This overwhelming sense
of gratitude has inspired him to
munificently give not only to his alma
mater, but also to encourage the generosity of his fellow classmates. He has
been instrumental in increasing
matching corporate gifts from a former employer and other large companies as well. In addition to establishing
a charitable remainder unitrust
(CRUT), he and his wife, Susie, contribute to a pooled income fund and
make other liberal donations throughout the year. He points out that
pooled income funds as well as charitable remainder trusts allow the donor
to receive a current tax deduction for
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the gift and may solve the problem of
future cash flow, as an annual income
for the donor is provided. The value of
the appreciating gift is not in the taxable
estate and can be covered by insurance
should the heirs object.
Gifts to a pooled income fund are
combined for investment purposes.
Individuals who contribute to a pooled
income fund receive a proportionate
share of the net income earned by the
fund annually. Bruttomesso notes that
there are a number of ways to give to
the school. Outright gifts, charitable
remainder trusts and scholarship funds
also provide Holy Cross with the backing necessary to support educational
activity and growth at the school,
according to Bruttomesso.
“I believe each of us owes something
of ourselves to others, in accordance
with our means and abilities. I give to
Holy Cross as others have given to me,”
says Bruttomesso.
Phyllis Hanlon is a free-lance journalist
from Charlton, Mass.
Tom Maher: A Bridge Builder
By Mark J. Cadigan
T
om Maher ’84 is a firm
believer in the value of a
Jesuit education. As concrete proof of that, he has
set up The Jeanne R. Maher Scholarship
Fund, which assists students from Xavier
High School in Manhattan who want to
attend Holy Cross. The fund, named
after his late mother, represents a minimum commitment of $100,000 on
Maher’s part and is the second-largest
gift to Holy Cross from an alumnus who
graduated less than 20 years ago.
“The important thing for me,” Maher
says, “was to build a bridge between the
Jesuit college I attended and the Jesuit
high school I attended, because it was
such a formative and important eight
years, both at Xavier and Holy Cross. I
wanted to provide other students with
similar opportunities.”
Maher, 39, is a principal and chief
financial officer (CFO) at Eastern
Development, LLC of Woburn, Mass., a
real estate development firm specializing
in retail and office projects throughout
New England. He credits his alma mater,
where he majored in history, with getting him ready for life after college.
“Holy Cross taught me to think critically,” he says. “It provided a great education and an essential road map within a
strong Catholic and Jesuit background. I
worked very hard at Holy Cross, and it
allowed me to be well-prepared as I ventured out into the business world.”
He worked in real estate finance for
Citibank and BayBank before becoming
CFO of Atlantic Retail Properties, which
grew into Eastern Development.
Maher and his sister, Mary Jane
(Maher) Higgins ’88, an elementary
school teacher, were raised in New York
by their parents, Jeanne, a school secretary, and Bill, who retired after working
for Citibank for 39 years. “One of the
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great memories I have of my mother was
her graduating from college in her mid40s,” Tom recalls. “She never had the
opportunity to go to college early in her
life, but it was a great lesson in perseverance and the value of education.”
Holy Cross Provost Frank Vellaccio
notes, “Tom Maher’s generosity to Holy
Cross in his mother’s name honors her
memory and will provide deserving students from Xavier a chance to attain a
Holy Cross education. Tom’s great generosity is also noteworthy given that he
graduated in 1984.”
“While this is in honor of my mother,” Maher points out, “my father
deserves equal mention. He showed me
how to be a good father and husband,
dedicated to my mother in her last days
and constantly kindling hope.”
Maher and his wife, Nancy (Kendall),
live in Andover, Mass., with their children, Peter and Colleen. Rev. Michael F.
Ford, S.J., a Holy Cross chaplain, and
Rev. Michael G. Boughton, S.J., a former Holy Cross chaplain, concelebrated
the couple’s wedding in 1989.
Other members of the Holy Cross
community who Maher says had an
impact on him include William Green,
retired history professor, Rev. Paul F.
Harman, S.J., former executive vicepresident of the College, and Rev.
Robert E. Manning, S.J., former chaplain.
“I’ve made wonderful friendships at
Holy Cross—Jesuits, alumni/ae, and
classmates,” Maher says. “Their values,
especially their commitment to ‘do the
right thing,’ are extraordinary.”
His parents’ examples started shaping his morals as a child, Maher says. “I
think my parents instilled at an early
age that you should give what you can,
when you can,” he explains. “They
were always very conscious of what they
had, and they shared what they had
with a lot of different people. At an
early age, I remember my mother taking children from the Lower East Side
who lived in apartment buildings that
didn’t have playgrounds, to our apartment complex, which did have playgrounds, and got them to enjoy some
of the things that we had. Simple things
like that had a profound impact on me,
and I just saw more and more examples
of that as time went on.”
Maher, who has also donated money
in memory of his mother to Epiphany,
his elementary school, and Xavier, his
high school, says he thinks that the
$175 million goal of the Lift High the
Cross fund-raising campaign is feasible.
“There’s a strong commitment among
alumni/ae to give to Holy Cross, and I
think that has increased under the
direction of Fr. McFarland and others,”
he says. “I think most importantly,
there’s a tremendous commitment to
the great things that are accomplished
at Holy Cross.”
Mark J. Cadigan is a free-lance writer
from Stoneham, Mass.
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Rosemary and Matthew Spillane ’95
Joseph ’64 and
Judith Levis
Justin Holmes ’02, Melissa Murray ’02, Fr. McFarland, Elizabeth
Curll ’02 and Jerry Volpe ’02
Mary and Michael
Shanahan ’78
Charles Polachi ’75, P ’05 and Donald
Froude ’78
Kathryn and Bill
Fox ’70, P’04, ’99
Meg Brogan, Christine Cunning and Marilyn
Sullivan P’87, P’85
Patrick ’73 and Nell ’74 Jones
with Dennis Hanson ’76
Abigail Ruettgers ’03 and
Kelly O’Neill ’02
270 Tremont St., Boston
David
Grain ’84
Robert ’91 and
Dolores Allard
John Ranelli ’68,
P’98, ’96, ’91 and
Ashley Davis
April 11: The Boston Regional Campaign
Committee and 200 guests celebrated the
Lift High the Cross Campaign with a cocktail buffet and reception at The Shubert
Theatre, followed by an eight o’clock performance of Disney’s Aida at the Wang
Center for the Performing Arts. Ann Marie
Connolly ’74, of Concord, Mass., chairs the
Boston Committee. Ryan Collar, Class of
2001 valedictorian, spoke to the group
about how his Holy Cross education has
helped him prioritize in his life. Collar, who
has been serving as a Jesuit Volunteer, will
attend medical school in the fall.
Vilma Matteis,
Michael Collins
M.D., ’77 and
Dick Matteis
’58
Patricia and Stan
Grayson ’72 with
Mary Donohue
Quinlan ’76
Gerry Migliaccio ’77, Bill
Phelan ’73, and Paul Sheff
Tim Porter ’68
The Scene
Patricia and Robert Dohrenwend ’60, P’95 with
Sally and Jack McNally ’50, P’91
Carrol Muccia ’58 Rev. Francis
Miller, S.J., ’46 and Rick Shea ’84
Paul LeClerc ’63
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, N.Y.
April 29: President and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library,
Paul LeClerc ’63, welcomed 115 guests to kick off the New York Regional
Campaign. Anthony Fauci, M.D., ’62, director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, was the featured speaker. Fauci
spoke about the depth and breadth of his Holy Cross experience and the
implications that “training according to the spirit” would have on his life.
GAA
Maine club undergoes
a renaissance
By Maureen E. Moran ’89
left-to-right: Maureen Kirsch ’90, Paddy Colgan ’01, Molly Colgan, Bob Wickstrom ’59,
Barbara Wickstrom, Chris Sacco ’88, Matt O’Donnell ’95, Ward Graffam, Kristin Graffam
’94, Colleen Totten-Amann ’92, Peter Amann ’93, Sharon Foerster ’85, Don Foerster, Tommy
Kelleher, Steve Kelleher ’71
W
hen Colleen Totten-Amann
’92 moved to Maine in the
summer of 1999, it was a
stroke of good luck for area alums.
Amann had moved from
Connecticut to the Portland area with
her husband, Peter ’93. While in
Connecticut, she had been involved
with the Hartford regional club, conducting alumni interviews for the
College. When she got to Maine,
Amann was interested in continuing her
involvement with alumni affairs. She
was disappointed in what she found.
Although active in the 1970s and
’80s, the Portland-based Maine alumni
club had been rather quiet in recent
years, with the exception of a President’s
Reception in 1999. With more than
400 Holy Cross graduates in the state,
however, the potential existed to renew
the club and infuse it with fresh ideas
and a burst of energy.
And that’s exactly what Amann did.
Late in 1999, Amann approached the
club’s leadership with a request to
become more involved with the existing
group. In 2000, she was asked if she
would be interested in becoming club
president, an opportunity she found
appealing, but one she would pursue
after the birth of her second child in
October of that year. In January 2001,
Amann—who had been a member of
the General Alumni Association since
1998—assumed the club’s presidency,
jumping in with both feet.
Soon after becoming president,
Amann met with the club’s board of
directors to review a long-discussed survey of alums living in Maine. “Was
there an interest in a club? Finding that
out was my first challenge,” she says.
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Working with the College’s Office of
Alumni Relations, Amann distributed
the survey in June 2001. The survey was
designed to gauge the level of interest in
a regional alumni club and club activities, as well as whether members would
be willing to pay dues, and if anyone
would be interested in conducting
alumni interviews. She received more
than 80 responses, and published the
results in an October 2001 newsletter
sent to Maine alums.
In addition to the survey, Amann
began planning club activities. In July
2001, she organized an alumni admissions training session. In August, she
put together a barbecue for accepted
students and graduates in Two Light
State Park in Cape Elizabeth. In
November, she organized a President’s
Reception that featured Jacqueline
Peterson, vice president for Student
Affairs and Dean of Students, as the
keynote speaker.
“I wanted to give something to alums
to prove that I was serious about the
club,” Amann says.
Amann has utilized a club newsletter
to generate interest in the Maine club,
as well as foster a sense of community
among alums throughout the state.
Although published on an as-needed
basis, the newsletter has been distributed
just about every three months. In the
January 2002 newsletter, Amann
reviewed the recent President’s
Reception, an October GAA meeting,
and information concerning the
College’s Sept. 11 scholarship fund.
“In putting together the newsletter, I
feel my role is to provide information
about the club’s activities, as well as
about the College,” she says. “If, for
example, a Holy Cross team is going to
be in Maine for a sporting event, I like
Bob Wickstrom ’59 (front) and Matt O’Donnell ’95
(rear) work on the siding.
to include a notation, so if alums here
want to go, they can.”
In 2002, a renewed and revitalized
Maine club has gotten off to a good
start. In late February, 15 volunteers—
including 10 alums—braved a cold winter day to gather in Portland to work on
a Habitat for Humanity home. The
group donned tool belts, picked up
hammers and climbed ladders to install
siding on three of the home’s walls, as
well as build a wall in the basement.
“We received a lot of interest in
February’s Habitat for Humanity project,” Amann says. “Because of that, I’m
going to look into another site we could
work on this summer.”
In 2002, Amann looks forward to
continuing many of the activities she
introduced in 2001: A send-off barbecue
in late August for accepted students, a
President’s Reception, perhaps even a
cocktail party at Christmas that would
ask alums who attend to bring a toy that
Sharon Foerster ’85 lends a hand.
would be donated to charity.
With a master’s degree in speech
pathology and two toddlers at home,
Amann is a busy person. Despite the
competing demands for her time, she is
committed to making certain that
Maine’s renewed regional club continues
to thrive and grow.
“It’s been fun,” she says. “I’ve
enjoyed meeting alums and reconnecting with classmates. As club president,
I’ve also enjoyed the opportunity to
become more involved at the College
level, through the GAA.”
As she looks ahead to the future of
the Maine club, Amann plans to establish events that will “run” themselves in
the years to come, through carefully created frameworks and detailed notes.
Given how large Maine is, she’d like to
see two regional clubs, one for the
northern part of the state and one for
the south, both operating under one
president.
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Breathing new life into Maine’s
regional club has meant a lot of hard
work for Amann, and she’s pleased with
what she sees. She hopes what has happened with the Maine club can serve as
an example for other small clubs around
the country.
“I’d like the Maine club to be looked
upon as successful,” Amann says, “as an
example of what a smaller, inactive club
can do to revitalize itself, if area alums
are willing and interested in getting
together and bringing a little bit of Holy
Cross to their part of the country.”
Maureen E. Moran ’89 is a free-lance
writer from Mansfield, Mass.
Holy Cross Alumnae Unite!
By Amy Amatangelo ’91
T
hey came with their mothers.
They brought their sisters. They
arrived with yoga mats. Former
classmates reconnected. And new friendships were forged.
On April 6, over 80 women representing every year since Holy Cross
became a coeducational institution gathered at the Henderson House in
Weston, Mass., for “Holy Cross
Women: United in Body, Mind, &
Spirit.”
The committee of nine alumnae
could not have dreamed up a more
rewarding day when it first met in late
September 2001. Inspired by the successful event held by the women alumnae in New York, the planning committee set out to plan a day “that allowed us
to get to know each other as both
women and Holy Cross graduates,” says
Cathy Angelini ’77, chair of the committee.
Since this was the inaugural event,
the committee was unsure of what to
expect. The members soon realized, as
attendance far exceeded the goal, that
Holy Cross women had been waiting for
an event like this. “I decided to attend
the event because I have always wanted
to be more involved with Holy Cross
alumni. I was attracted by the fact that
work/family balance was going to be a
topic—as a lawyer with a toddler, this
topic is an obsession for me,” says
Maura Murphy ’86.
The day began with a talk by Carole
Fontaine, an internationally recognized
scholar and professor of biblical history
and theology at Andover Newton
Theological School. A well-known lecturer on prayer, healing and feminist
spirituality, Fontaine presented a talk on
how
women have been portrayed historically
in the Bible and other ancient documents and the implications for women
today. “The guest speaker was wonderful. I can’t wait to get her new book,”
says Moira McLaughlin ’79.
For the second part of the afternoon,
attendees chose between an interactive
discussion with Fontaine or a yoga class
led by Tammy Nuenighoff. Both
options proved popular, and the yoga
class spilled out of its original location
and into the lobby of the Henderson
House. Many alumnae attended their
first yoga class and were inspired to take
more. Jan Clifford-Murphy ’79 was so
enthused that she had enrolled in her
own yoga program by the end of the
week. “I loved the combination of academics, exercise and personal sharing of
experiences,” says Clifford-Murphy.
For many, the highlight of the day
was the four alumnae panel titled “A
Balancing Act.” The panelists included
Macrina Hjerpe ’81, Cynthia White ’95,
Beth Manning LaLiberte ’82, and
Joanne Ferrucci Sullivan ’79. Their
frank and honest discussions about the
challenges of balancing careers, family,
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friendships and personal time were a fitting
end to a special and memorable day.
“Despite their different ages and life
experiences, the importance of family,
children and loved ones was the common thread for each panelist,” says
Angelini. “The panelists were honest,
real, humorous, tender, courageous and
generous. You could not have planned a
better combination of speakers,” says
Clifford-Murphy.
The day concluded with a reception
that went well beyond the intended
closing. “I left there feeling so proud
that I am a Holy Cross alumna,” says
Ferrucci Sullivan. “It’s so good to know
that there are so many others out there
that experience the same joys and
heartaches.”
As women shared their thoughts on
the day and munched on hors d’oeuvres,
attendees expressed their hopes that this
gathering will become an annual occurrence. “The participants lingered, left
smiling, and asking when the next event
will happen,” Angelini says.
Amy Amatangelo ’91 is a free-lance writer
from Newton, Mass.
top: The Class of 2002 and alumni enjoyed
an evening of networking at the annual
General Alumni Association’s Senior
Reception held on April 11.
left: In March, alumni attending the annual
Holy Cross Retreat at Mount Manresa Jesuit
Retreat House in Staten Island, N.Y., dedicated a Linden tree in memory of the seven
alumni killed on Sept. 11. The retreat was
organized by Rev. Thomas Quinn, S.J., ’57.
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Athletics
Phil Byrne ’62 Wins World Title
By Larry Napolitano
oly Cross has produced its fair
share of top athletes in many different sports. But not many have
become world champions at the
age of 60. Phil Byrne ’62 became a top
athlete later in life.
In 2001, Byrne won the gold medal
in the decathlon at the World
Championships for Masters Track &
Field held in Brisbane, Australia. His
road to the world championship was an
interesting one, seldom traveled by
world champions in track and field.
Byrne left Mount Saint James in June
1962 with a degree in economics. Upon
graduation, he served as a lieutenant in
the United States Air Force from 19621965. He then went on to earn his master’s degree in finance from Harvard
Business School in 1967. He worked at
Keystone Investments for nearly 30
years, including 13 years as president of
its investment counsel subsidiary,
Keystone Investment Management
Corp. He was a senior vice president of
the parent company and a member of
the executive committee and the board
of directors.
Active in the community, Byrne has
served on the board of the Holy Cross
Club of Greater Boston and the Boston
Center for International Visitors, as well
as the finance committee of Carney
Hospital. He is currently a director of
USA Track & Field - New England, a
director of Shake-A-Leg, an organization
for spinal cord injury patients in
Newport, R.I., and a member of the
investment committee of the New
England Province of the Jesuits.
Competitive throughout his life,
Byrne played hockey and baseball at
B.C. High and ran what he calls “a bit
of forgettable” track. At Holy Cross he
played hockey, which at that time was
H
still a club sport. Along with several of
his teammates, he helped form the foundation of the varsity ice hockey program
that exists today at Holy Cross. But he
never even thought about going out for
the College track team.
After College, he played flag football
while in the Air Force and was an assistant captain of the rugby team while at
Harvard Business School. He also began
racing sailboats again. Byrne had begun
sailing while at B.C. High, has raced on
everything from day-sailers to 12
meters, including the Maxi yacht,
Matador, which went on to win the
World Championship and served as the
base program for Bill Koch’s America’s
Cup victory in 1992.
Byrne began competing on the
Master’s track and field circuit in 1996
when he was looking for a new challenge. “I love to compete,” he says, “and
the so-called ‘combined-events’ are considered one of the ultimate athletic challenges.” He also recalled that one of his
boyhood heroes was Bob Mathias, twotime Olympic decathlon champion.
His track and field career began at
the Eastern Indoor Championship at
Brandeis University in 1996. Byrne won
the long jump and competed in four
other events there, learning later that his
“sore” ankle had been fractured in the
first event of the day. Later on that year,
he achieved the All-American standard
in the long jump, javelin and the outdoor pentathlon.
In 1997, Byrne began to hit his
stride in his new sport. He medaled in
all 12 events in the Massachusetts Senior
Games, including finishing first in eight
events, while placing second in the other
four. He placed second at the United
States Decathlon Championships and
earned All-America honors in the high
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jump, long jump, javelin, indoor pentathlon, outdoor pentathlon and the
decathlon. He carried that success into
the 1998 season, where he was the
North American champion in the 100meter high hurdles, the high jump, the
long jump, the discus, the javelin and
the pentathlon.
In 1999, Byrne suffered a seasonending injury when he tore his hamstring while competing in the Canadian
Championships, but the 2000 season
began his run towards the world championships. He placed second in the pentathlon, indoors and outdoors, at the
U.S. Championships, and won the high
jump, long jump,100-meter and 300meter hurdles and the pentathlon at the
North American Championships.
The hard work and dedicated training all came to fruition during the 2001
season. He captured the National
Championship in the indoor pentathlon, the outdoor pentathlon and the
decathlon, where he set an American
record for the javelin in the national
decathlon championship; he was named
the United States combined-events
Athlete of the Year. But the whole season was highlighted by his gold medal
decathlon performance at the World
Championships.
The World Championships in
Masters Track & Field, which were first
held in 1975, take place every two years
in various cities around the world. The
2001 competition featured roughly
5,000 athletes from over 80 countries.
The meet is held over the span of 10
days, and as with all Masters meets,
competition takes place in five-year age
groups for men 40 and over and women
35 and older.
In Brisbane, there were 197 people
entered in the decathlon, including 22
in Byrne’s age group. Based on his win
in the U.S. Championships two weeks
earlier, he felt as if he had a shot at a
medal but never really thought of himself as a potential gold medalist.
“Believe it or not, I was more excited
about winning the National
Championship in the decathlon than
winning the World Championship,”
Byrne says. “I guess that was because it
was a goal I’d had for the last couple of
years, and it seemed possible. Winning
the World Championship never really
entered my mind, although I did hope
that I might be able to place in the top
three and win a medal.”
The decathlon is separated into two
days of competition. On the first day,
athletes compete in the 100-meter dash,
the long jump, the shot put, the high
jump and the 400 meters. On the second day, they compete in the 100-meter
high hurdles, the discus, the pole vault,
the javelin and the 1,500 meters. The
better the performance in each event,
the higher the points, with the top
points overall being the winner. It is a
grueling competition both physically
and mentally.
On his first day of competition in
Brisbane, Byrne exceeded his expectations with personal bests in the 100,
shot put and 400 and narrowly missed
career bests in the jumps. “I had been
hoping for around 3,800 points the first
day,” Byrne says. “But I wound up with
4,106 points, and with my nearest competitor 231 points back, I thought I
might have a chance to win it.”
Masters athletes use the same
decathlon scoring tables as young athletes, but their actual performances are
“age-graded” before being computed.
Byrne’s actual (and age-graded) numbers
the first day were: 13.54 (11.31); 16’11”
(24’11”); 35’9” (48’6”); 4’11 ½”
(6’11”); and 65.57 (52.94).
Byrne’s top competitor was American
Emil Pawlik, the defending world champion and Byrne’s close friend. “Emil was
definitely the man to beat,” Byrne says.
“He had not been beaten in a pentathlon or decathlon in 10 years but was
coming off of knee surgery eight
months earlier and was not 100 percent.
We’ve become good friends
since I started competing in
1996, but we were going at it
with no holds barred for this
one.”
Pawlik was very strong in
the first three events of the
second day—the hurdles, the
discus and the pole
vault—and Byrne expected
Pawlik to win them all.
Byrne kept a 182-point
lead after the hurdles, running
a personal best 16.90 (15.10
age-graded) to Pawlik’s 16.46.
After a below par 121’6” in
the discus (135’8” age-graded), Byrne remained in the
lead by 88 points, but Pawlik
was closing fast and Byrne’s
weakest event, the pole vault,
was next.
“I knew the pole vault was
going to be key,” Byrne says.
“I had struggled lately in the
vault, and Emil is an excellent
vaulter. But just before leaving
for Australia, I had called on the pole
vault coach at Holy Cross, John
Hoogasian, for some help with my
vaulting, and that turned out to be crucial.”
Byrne had one session with
Hoogasian and then did two more on
his own up at the Hart Center track in
100-degree heat, adding a foot to his
previous best. Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J.,
president emeritus, watched the practice
and offered encouragement as he did his
daily walk around the track. The sessions paid off, as Byrne had another personal best of 8’3” (age-graded 12’6”).
But Pawlik went 16 inches higher and
took the lead by 81 points, with two
events remaining. “My vaulting in
Brisbane was pretty ugly,” says Byrne.
“There was blood all over me and the
pit when I finished, but I had kept it
close enough that I had a chance.”
In the javelin, the fourth event of the
day, Byrne won the event with a throw
of 130’4” (age-graded 207’1”), and went
back into the lead by 49 points. With
just the 1,500 meter run remaining, his
lead meant Pawlik would have to beat
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him by about 10 seconds in the 1,500
to win the gold. The two were roughly
1,000 points ahead of a three-way battle
for third place among a Russian, a
Norwegian and a German.
“Over the past couple of years, I’d
generally beaten him in the 1,500, and
he had not been able to train as much as
he wanted to,” Byrne recalls. We actually discussed not running it at all, as we
had first and second safely in hand, and
wanted to save ourselves for several
more individual events later in the meet.
But the rules require that each event be
“attempted.” After one lap in which
Byrne opened up a sizeable lead, Pawlik
retired. Byrne finished the 1,500 in
5:58.93 (4:49.02 age-graded) to win his
age group with 7,607 points. As it
turned out, that was the highest total of
any age group in the decathlon. He had
won his gold medal and had become
World Champion.
Larry Napolitano is the director of athletic
media relations at Holy Cross.
Sports Digest
Men’s Basketball Season
Review
On Jan. 23, the Crusaders dropped a
tough 57-46 decision to Army at West
Point to fall to 8-12, 2-3 in league play.
After that game, the Holy Cross men’s
basketball program turned its season
around. The team won 10 of its next 12
games to finish in second place in the
league and enter the Patriot League
Tournament as arguably the hottest
team in the league. In their quarterfinal
game, the Crusaders held Navy to a
Patriot League Tournament record low
Ryan Serravalle ’02
41 points in a 59-41 win. Holy Cross
held the Midshipmen to just 30.2 percent shooting from the floor and posted
a 42-30 rebounding advantage in picking up the win. Tim Szatko ’03
(Naperville, Ill.) scored 19 points and
added nine rebounds to lead the offensive effort. Fellow guard Brian Wilson
’03 (Plainfield, N.J.) chipped in with 12
points while Guillermo Sanchez ’02
(Washington Heights, N.Y.) added a
season-high seven points off the bench.
The win helped the team advance to the
semifinals where it would face Bucknell.
The Bison led by as many as six points
(27-21) with two minutes left to play
but senior captain Ryan Serravalle ’02
(Thorold, Ontario) converted three free
throws and Szatko hit a jumper to bring
the Crusaders to within one point at the
half.
The second half saw 13 lead changes
and eight ties. Neither team took more
than a three-point lead until Holy Cross
went on a 6-0 run to take a 59-54 lead
with 37 seconds remaining in the game.
After Bucknell connected on a threepointer to cut the lead to two points, a
technical foul was called on the Bison
that resulted in a four-point play for
Holy Cross and a six-point lead. The
Crusaders connected on 5-of-6 free
throws in the final 30 seconds of the
game to secure the team’s 17th win of
the season. Szatko scored a game-high
19 points and added 12 rebounds to
lead the Holy Cross effort while center
Patrick Whearty ’02 (Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.) posted his first double-double in a
month with 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Serravalle finished with 13 points for
Holy Cross, which won its third straight
game and fifth in its last six outings.
Holy Cross held Bucknell to just
40.0 percent (18-of-45) shooting from
the floor and connected on 73.0 percent
from the charity stripe (27-of-37). The
win helped the Crusaders advance to the
Patriot League championship game for
the second consecutive season.
This year, however, the team had to
head down to Washington, D.C., to
battle top-seed American University at
Bender Arena. Holy Cross trailed by as
many as seven points in the first half
(18-11), but the Crusaders responded
with a 15-2 run to take a 26-20 lead
with 4:24 left in the first half. American
responded with a 6-0 run of its own to
tie the game for the fourth time in the
opening half. The Eagles then carried a
one-point lead into halftime (28-27).
Guard Jave Meade ’04 (Queensbridge,
N.Y.) scored seven points in the first
half to lead the Crusaders’ effort.
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Whearty chipped in with six points and
two blocks to help the cause.
American posted its biggest lead of
the second half with 13:40 left in the
game (40-34) as they went on a 5-0 run.
Holy Cross then answered with a 13-2
run of its own capped off by Szatko’s
jumper in the lane. The Eagles answered
with a 6-3 run to cut the Crusaders’
lead to two points (50-48) with 4:13
left. After the team missed a free throw
with two minutes left in the game,
American connected on a three-point
field goal from the top of the key to
take a one-point lead (51-50) with 1:37
remaining in the game.
Holy Cross regained the lead again
with 1:00 left in the contest when
Whearty converted a layup. After
American missed a three-pointer from
the corner, the team’s opportunity to
extend its lead failed when the
Crusaders missed two free throws. The
Eagles missed another three-point
attempt with 16 seconds remaining, and
Wilson pulled down the rebound. He
Jave Meade ’04
knocked down two free throws with 16
seconds left and then after another
missed three point attempt, Wilson converted two more free throws with six
seconds left in the game. After American
converted a three pointer to cut the
Crusaders lead to two points (56-54),
Serravalle knocked down two free
throws with one second remaining to
secure the win.
Szatko scored 12 of his team-high 16
points in the second half while Wilson
chipped in with 10-second half points
to lead the Crusader scoring effort. Holy
Cross turned the ball over a season-low
four times while handing out 13 assists.
Szatko was named Most Valuable Player
of the Tournament while teammate
Wilson joined him on the AllTournament team.
Holy Cross then was 16th seed in the
Midwest region and battled Kansas in
the NCAA Tournament. The Crusaders
fought down to the wire before falling,
70-59. Wilson scored 13 points, pulled
down four rebounds and three assists to
earn CBS Player of the Game honors.
The Crusaders trailed 11-4 with 15:59
left to play in the first half but responded with a 10-2 run capped off by a fourpoint play by Serravalle to take a onepoint lead. Holy Cross stretched its lead
to as many as five points with 10:33 left
in the opening half after Whearty
knocked down two free throws. The
Jayhawks responded with a 14-4 run of
its own to take a five-point lead with
5:38 left in the first half. The Crusaders
refused to give up though and battled
back to tie the score with 2:19 left in
the opening stanza of play. Holy Cross
then carried a 37-35 lead into halftime
after a jumper in the lane by Wilson.
In the second half, the Crusaders
stretched their lead to five points with
17:54 left in the second half on a three
pointer from Meade. Holy Cross held
its five-point lead with 14:27 remaining
in the game before Kansas used a 9-2
run to regain control of the game at 4846. The Crusaders continued to battle
as Szatko converted three free throws to
give the team a one point-lead with 8:48
left in the contest. The Jayhawks,
ranked second in the nation entering
the game, then went on a 8-1 run to
take a six-point lead (56-50) with 7:11
remaining. Once again, Holy Cross battled back, and when Wilson connected
on a three pointer with 6:05 left in the
lost back-to-back
game, the team trailed
Patriot League game
by just one point (56(’91-’92: Lafayette and
55). Unfortunately for
Bucknell). Holy Cross
Holy Cross that was as
then rattled off nine
close as the Crusaders
straight wins to clinch
would get. Kansas then
its ninth overall reguoutscored the team,
lar season title.
14-4 down the stretch
After posting a 12to pick up the win.
2 record in the league
Holy Cross ended
play, Holy Cross
the regular season
received the number
ranked sixth in the
one-seed and a match
nation in scoring
up against the number
defense allowing just
eight-seed Lafayette
59.3 points per game,
(3-25, 1-13). The
and despite the loss in
Crusaders started the
the NCAAs, the 2001game with a 14-0 run
02 season started slowJeanette Paukert ’02
and cruised to a 23ly but ended with a
point victory over the
fantastic finish. The
Leopards. Holy Cross then faced the
Crusaders won their second consecutive
number five-seed Colgate in the semifiPatriot League title for the first time in
nals, who knocked off the number fourschool history while posting 18 wins for
seed American in the first round. The
only the fifth time since 1990 and 25th
young Raiders squad shot 54 percent in
time in the 83-year history of men’s basthe first half and took a 38-31 halftime
ketball. With 10 of the 12 players
lead. Colgate led by 10 points with 11
returning from this season and on the
minutes to go in the game, before the
strength of back-to-back league titles
Crusaders went on an 18-8 run to tie
and NCAA appearances, the future
the game at 65 with six minutes left. Up
looks extremely bright for Holy Cross
by just one point at 3:01 mark, Holy
men’s basketball.
Cross outscored the Raiders 11-0 to
advance to the Championship game
Women’s Basketball
against Bucknell at the Hart Center.
Season Review
After winning 61 consecutive games
The Crusaders completed their 22nd
against
Patriot League opponents at the
straight winning season with a 23-8
Hart
Center,
the streak ended for the
overall record and concluded the year
Crusaders
as
they
fell to Bucknell, 88with the program’s 10th postseason
74,
in
the
title
game.
After winning 23
appearance. Holy Cross earned its sixth
games
during
the
season,
the team was
consecutive Patriot League Regular
invited
to
the
Women’s
National
Season title with a 12-2 league record.
Invitational Tournament. Holy Cross
Several members of the team garnered
faced the University of Vermont in
individual awards, including guard
Burlington, Vt., in the first round.
Maggie Fontana ’05 (Palatine, Ill.),
Katie O’Keefe ’03 (Stratham, N.H.)
who earned Rookie of the Year honors.
scored a career-high 24 points and
After a double-overtime loss to
Fontana recorded her fifth double-douFairfield on the road to begin the new
ble of the season (16 points and 10
year, the Crusaders started their Patriot
rebounds), but it wasn’t enough as the
League title defense against Navy at the
Crusaders fell to the Catamounts, 70Hart Center. Holy Cross knocked off
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the Midshipmen in overtime and won
O’Keefe earned First Team Allits next three games including a nonPatriot
League, while guard Amanda
conference game versus Hartford. The
Abraham
’02 (Plymouth, Mich.) was
team then lost to Lehigh and Army on
selected
to
the Second Team, and
the road. It was only the second time in
Fontana
was
named to the All-Rookie
school history that the Crusaders have
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Team. Guard Jeanette Paukert ’02
(Chicago, Ill.) led the backcourt and
dished out a team leading 161 assists
while averaging 10.2 points per game.
Forward Elisa Zawadzkas ’02 (Orleans,
Mass.), who came of the bench her first
three seasons, started all 31 games this
year and averaged 6.7 ppg and 4.9 rpg.
Redshirt Mary Rose Campbell ’03
(Richmond, Va.) has come off the bench
to average 5.8 points and 5.3 rebounds.
She was third on the team in rebounds
and sixth in scoring in 20.6 minutes per
game.
Swimming & Diving
the Patriot League Diver of the Meet
after winning both the one- and threemeter diving events. Crusader diving
coach Brian Boyer also was named the
Patriot League Diving Coach of the Year
for the second straight season.
Rinaldi, who dominated the diving
events all season, scored 259.35 points
in the one-meter diving competition
and 452.15 points in the three-meter
diving competition, breaking the meet
record set by Julia Bell from Army in
1996 (446.90). This marks only the
fourth time in Holy Cross history that a
Crusader has won two events at the
Patriot League Swimming and Diving
Championships.
Carolyn Pucko ’04 (Webster, Mass.)
finished second in one-meter diving
with 247.35 points. This is the first time
Holy Cross men’s swimming and diving team finished the season with a 5-3
record, which is its best finish in recent
years. The Crusaders placed seventh
with 254 points at the 2002
Patriot League Championships
held at Navy in Annapolis, Md.,
while setting 10 new school
records. The women’s team finished 5-4 overall and eighth with
198 points at the Patriot League
Championships.
The men’s top swimmers
included, Mike Emmons ’03
(Middleboro, Mass.) and Scott
Rimm ’04 (Potomac, Md.) who
Mike Emmons ’03
both captured bronze medals in
500-freestyle and 200-freestyle
respectively at the Patriot League
in school history Holy Cross captured
Championships. The 200-freestyle relay
gold and silver in an event at the Patriot
team (1:27.03), 400-freestyle relay team
League championships. Both Rinaldi
(3:11.59) and 400-medley relay team
and Pucko qualified for Zone A (3:34.34) all set new school records,
District I and II trials in 1-meter diving,
while Emmons broke four individual
which were be held at Navy on March
school records in 500-freestyle
15 and 16. Rinaldi also competed in 3(4:38.11), 100-freestyle (0:52.05), 100meter diving trails.
butterfly (0:52.05) and 200-butterfly
(1:53.62). Rimm set two individual
Track & Field
records in 200-freestyle (1:42.43) and
The Holy Cross men’s and women’s
track and field teams wrapped up their
100-backstroke (0:53.74) and Steve
indoor season and are preparing for a
Finocchi ’02 (North Attleboro, Mass.)
tough outdoor season that features trips
broke the 50-freestyle record with a time
to the Penn Relays, Patriot League
of 0:21.59.
Championship and New England
On the women’s side, Laura
Championships.
Brennan ’04 (Eglin AFB, Fla.) broke
The Crusaders’ men’s team placed
the 50-freestyle school record with a
eighth at the Patriot League
time of 0:24.34. For the second straight
Championships held at the United
season, Holy Cross diver Kim Rinaldi
States Military Academy. Dan Conti
’02 (West Boylston, Mass.) was named
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’03 (Hubbardston, Mass.) was the
Crusaders’ highest placing finisher, taking second place in the indoor pentathlon and setting a new College record
with 3,545 points. A.J. Thibeault ’02
(East Providence, R.I.) placed third in
the men’s 35 lb.-weight throw with a
toss of 17.00 meters. Dwayne
Henclewood ’04 (Jamaica) also placed
with a throw of 14.85 meters in the shot
put while Sean McCarthy ’03
(Chelmsford, Mass.) placed fifth in the
5,000-meter run with a time of
14:55.00.
On the women’s side, Holy Cross
also placed eighth, led by Kaitlyn
Wright ’04 (Londonderry, N.H.) who
placed fourth in the one-mile run with a
time of 5:14.62. Emily Hogan ’02
(Northboro, Mass.) and Bethany
Miczek ’05 (Leicester, Mass.) also
joined Wright as point scorers
with a sixth-place finish in the
5,000-meter run and the indoor
pentathlon respectively. Hogan
finished in a time of 18:01.47
while Miczek scored 2,786
points. The Crusaders also placed
fifth in the 4 x 800 meter relay
with a time of 9:35.23.
The Crusaders began the outdoor season on March 30 with
the Worcester City Championship. The team then traveled to
Albany for a tri-meet with Albany and
Williams before heading to the Blue
Devil Invitational. The Crusaders’
multi-event meet was up next for the
team before it hosted Maine, Vermont
and Central Connecticut in a quadmeet on April 20. The Patriot League
Championships took place the first
weekend of May while the New
England Championships at
Northeastern were held May 9-11.
Baseball Preview
The 2002 Holy Cross baseball team
is looking to build on the success of the
2001 season. The Crusaders finished
with an overall record of 19-23 last season, which marked the programs best
record in 10 years. The team also finished 11-9 in league play and qualified
for the Patriot League Tournament for
the second time in three years. Several
members of the team garnered individual awards, including second baseman
Peter Summa ’02 (Florham Park, N.J.),
who earned Player of the Year honors.
Holy Cross lost just one starter from the
field and one from the pitching rotation
from last year’s squad. Under the direction of first-year head coach Fran
O’Brien, the Crusaders look to pick up
where they left off and find themselves
in the Patriot League title hunt once
again.
Pitchers
The Crusaders enter this season with
six returning pitchers from last year,
including three seniors. Co-captain
Mike Montano ’02 (Moodus, Conn.)
led the team with 5-3 record and a 4.93
ERA. Classmates Jay Carberry ’02
(Wellesley, Mass.) and Mike Kerns ’02
(Demerst, N.J.) will also return to the
mound and will no doubt be relied on
more this season. James Arrante ’03
(Queens, N.Y.), D.J. Lucey ’03
(Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Ben Deane
’03 (East Longmeadow, Mass.) had
impressive outings last year. Arrante and
Deane will miss most of the season due
to injuries. Lucey broke a Holy Cross
record with most relief appearances
(19). The rest of the staff is filled with
newcomers, including John Dibble ’03
(West Orange, N.J.) and James
DeLucia ’04 (Hartsdale, N.Y.) and
Jason Lynch ’05 (Arlington, Va.).
Catchers
Dale Johnson ’03 (Beecher, Ill.) will
handle the duties behind the plate.
Johnson, who started 30 games last season before breaking his ankle, was one
of the team’s most improved hitters a
year ago. He led the team in batting
average (.396) and finished second in
RBI (31) and slugging percentage
(.545), while earning First Team AllPatriot League honors. George Burke
’03 (Garden City, N.Y.) who saw action
in six games will back-up behind the
plate along with newcomer Trevor
O’Brien ’05 (Cranston, R.I.).
Infielders
A position of strength heading into
the 2002 season, the Crusaders return
all four starters to the infield. Second
baseman Peter Summa ’02 (Florham
Park, N.J.) will anchor a solid middle
infield. The Crusader co-captain started
every game last season and led the team
in hits (57), triples (3), homeruns (6),
RBI (44), total bases (92) and slugging
percentage (.594). Dan Powers ’03
(Massapequa, N.Y.) and Eric Tapper
’03 (Hopkinton, Mass.) once again will
fill the corner positions. Powers started
all 42 games, most of them at third
base, batting .246 on 32 hits, including
22 RBI and 32 runs. Tapper played in
31 games at first base and had 149
putouts. Ed Turner ’04 (Drexel Hill,
Pa.) started all 42 games at shortstop as
a rookie. The leadoff hitter batted .277
on 44 hits and led the team with 13
stolen bases. He also drew a team leading 17 walks. Chris Doneski ’04
(Billerica, Mass.) saw action in 24 games
and will help solidify the infield along
with newcomers, Drew Bigda ’05
(Stamford, Conn.), Scott Delphey ’05
(Arcadia, Calif.), Kevin Kielbasa ’05
(Westfield, Mass.) and Mike Schell ’05
(Newton, Pa.).
Outfielders
The Crusaders return two starters in
the outfield with Matt McEvoy ’03
(Belmont, Mass.) and Bill
Andruskevich ’03 (Milford, Mass.).
McEvoy started every game in the rightfield and finished the season third in
batting average (.313) and RBI (27). He
led the team in doubles (15) and fielding percentage (1.000). Andruskevich
started 41 games in the left field and
finished fourth in batting average
(.312). He drove in 26 runs and scored
19. James Lewis ’04 (East Chester,
N.Y.) and Steve Sullivan ’04 (North
Andover, Mass.) who saw limited playing time, along with Steve Buckley ’05
(Hingham, Mass.), Peter Pasciucco ’05
(Norfolk, Mass.) and John Raus ’05
(Stamford, Conn.) will likely round out
the outfield.
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Peter Summa ’02
Golf Preview
Holy Cross men’s golf team will kick
off its 2002 spring season at George
Washington Invitational. The Crusaders
also will participate in Yale Spring
Tournament, District I Championships
and Mass. State Intercollegiate before
Patriot League Championships held at
Army in West Point, N.Y. Captain
Chad Rusek ’02 (Adams, Mass.) and
Drew Sullivan ’04 (Pittsfield, Mass.)
were the top two scorers for Holy Cross
in the fall. Rusek led the team with 76.2
average in eight rounds while Sullivan
finished with 76.8 average in six rounds.
Kevin Madden ’04 (Sandwich, Mass.),
Steve Finocchi ’02 (North Attleboro,
Mass.) and Paul Flood ’05 (Oakdale,
N.Y.) all averaged under 80 in the fall.
Head Coach Bob Molt will depend on
the senior leadership and young talent
for a successful 2002 spring season.
The Crusader women will open their
2002 spring season versus Bryant
College at Blackstone National in
Sutton, Mass. Holy Cross will compete
in Williams Tournament followed by
Mass. State Intercollegiate and New
England Intercollegiate this season.
Claudia Rothschild ’05 (Garden City,
N.Y.) was the top performer for the
Crusaders in the fall, averaging 88.8 in
four rounds. Moira Connors ’02
(Corning, N.Y.) and Elizabeth Norden
’04 (Callicoon, N.Y.) finished second
(95.3) and third (98.3) respectively. The
rest of the team is filled with Beth
Sullivan ’02 (Scituate, Mass.), Laura
Ciaramicoli ’03 (Milford, Mass.),
Women’s varsity eight crew team
Jennifer Driscoll ’03 (Salem, Mass.),
Karen Sheehan ’03 (Wethersfield,
Conn.), Casey White ’03 (Manhasset,
N.Y.), Lindsey Lavoie ’04 (Dartmouth,
Mass.) and Sheila Tully ’04 (Maple
Glen, Pa.).
Men’s Lacrosse Preview
Holy Cross enters the 2002 season
looking to improve upon its three-win
season of last year. The Crusaders will
try to use the momentum of back-toback wins at the end of the 2001 campaign to propel themselves up the ranks
of the Patriot League. Although boasting
a relatively inexperienced lineup, the
team hopes that the newcomers will
develop quickly and that their talent will
have an impact on the program’s success.
Offensively, the Crusaders will have to
replace All-New England attackman
Rich Santoro. Tim Walsh ’04
(Springfield, Mass.) will add experience
to the attack of the Crusaders. He
played in 10 games in his first season.
He notched three goals on four shots,
including two in Patriot League play.
Coach McCaffrey also is counting on
the addition of newcomers Mike
McKee ’05 (Sloatsburg, N.Y.) and
Patrick Hart ’05 (Wyckoff, N.J.) to
have an immediate impact on the attack
in 2002. McKee was a top attackman at
the Lawrenceville School and will challenge for a starting role immediately.
Hart is the biggest attackman (6-2, 175)
on the Crusaders’ roster and can finish
around the cage. In the midfield, Paul
Washington ’03 (Port Jefferson Station,
N.Y.) and Shaun McGowan ’03
(Garden City, N.Y.) will anchor the
Crusaders’ effort. Washington played in
all 14 games a year ago, scoring 10 goals
and adding one assist for 11 points.
McGowan played in only nine games
due to illness but was effective when on
the field. He scored five goals and added
three assists for eight points.
Men’s and Women’s
Rowing Preview
The Holy Cross men’s and women’s
rowing teams are looking to build upon
a successful fall campaign and carry the
momentum into the spring season. The
Crusaders will have eight home meets
on Lake Quinsigamond, including hosting the Patriot League and New
England championships.
The Crusaders will begin the spring
season in Florida at the FIT Regatta
before travelling to Cherry Hill, N.J. for
the Jesuit Invitational, where it will bat-
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tle Georgetown, Boston College,
Villanova, St. Joseph’s, Fordham, Loyola
and Fairfield.
The Crusaders will then return home
to face Coast Guard, Wesleyan and
Dartmouth before taking on New
Hampshire, Massachusetts-Lowell and
Rhode Island. The team will next travel
to Boston to take on Boston College,
MIT, Tufts and Tulane before returning
home against Trinity, Massachusetts
Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Smith
College. After the Worcester City
Championships in the middle of April,
the Crusaders will battle Connecticut
College, Tufts and Ithaca before hosting
Patriot League Championships and New
Englands in back-to-back weeks. Holy
Cross will then look to qualify for the
prestigious Avaya Collegiate Regatta
which will be held in Princeton, N.J.
The men’s team will be led this season by captain Chris Schultz ’02
(Schenectady, N.Y.) and captain Roger
Ross ’02 (Philadelphia, Pa.) while the
women’s team will be led by Marie
Golden ’02 (Stamford, Conn.) and
Rebecca Smith ’02 (Torrington,
Conn.).
Class Notes
1944
Eugene F. O’Connell, who currently
serves as the state of Vermont coordinator for AARP Tax-Aide, recently
received the state of Vermont
Governor’s Award for Outstanding
Community Service. O’Connell is a
retired auditor for the home office
of the National Life Insurance
Company of Vermont in Montpelier.
1947
55th
Class Chair
George A. Cashman
Reunion
On Jan. 5, William L.
O’Connell, D.D.S., received the
“Herbert L. Taub” Distinguished
Service Award from the Nassau
County Dental Society, a component of the New York State Dental
Association.
1948
Class Co-Chairs
John F. Becker
Vincent Zuaro
Rev. Roy J. Devaney is celebrating
the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Fr. Devaney
had most recently served as the
pastor of St. Mary’s Parish,
Shrewsbury, Mass., until his retirement in 1992.
1950
Class Chair
James P. Diggins
Nicholas D. Mercadante recently
retired after serving 30 years on the
board of trustees of Fitchburg
(Mass.) Savings Bank; for the past
14 years he had been chairman of
the board. Mercadante, who is
semi-retired, continues to serve as
a partner of the Fitchburg accounting firm, Mercadante & Mercadante.
1952
50th
Class Chairs
William J. Casey
Reunion
Rev. John R. Mulvehill
Saint Thomas Aquinas College,
Sparkill, N.Y, recently selected
Laurence T. “Pete” Beckerle as the
recipient of its 2002 Spartan Award
and for induction into its Alumni
Hall of Fame. Active in numerous
nonprofit business and educational
organizations, he has served as
president of the family-owned business, Beckerle Lumber Supply Co.,
Spring Valley, N.Y., since 1965. The
April 22 edition of The Washington
Post included an essay by Joseph A.
Califano Jr., titled “A Vision for the
Catholic Church.” Califano is chairman and president of the National
Center on Addiction and Substance
Abuse (CASA) at Columbia
University in New York City.
1953
Class Chair
Rev. Msgr. John J. Kelliher
The Boys and Girls Club of
Worcester selected John J. Conte
for induction into its hall of fame on
April 13; Conte continues to serve
as the Worcester County district
attorney. The April 5 edition of the
Catholic Free Press announced the
retirement of Msgr. John J. Kelliher
as pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary
Parish in Worcester and as moderator of the Bishop’s Fund. Msgr.
Kelliher, who had served more than
20 years as the pastor of Our Lady
of the Rosary Church and 34 years
as moderator, is to continue to
serve as diocesan ecumenical officer, a position he has held since
1989. James T. Larkin was selected
to serve as grand marshal of the
28th annual Greenwich (Conn.) St.
Patrick’s Day Parade. Last October,
George J. Power was invested as a
Knight of the Equestrian Order of
the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
Most Rev. George E. Rueger, auxiliary bishop of Worcester and vicar
general, was selected as the speaker at the Second Annual Diocesan
Catholic Men’s Conference held in
Worcester in March.
“Annual Business 100” honorees;
Burns is chairman and president of
BF Enterprises, Inc., Palm Beach,
Fla., and founder of the John J.
Burns Library of Rare Books at
Boston College. Edward F. Lanoue
was recently inducted into the 6th
Annual Hall of Fame of his alma
mater, Archbishop Williams High
School, in Braintree, Mass. Rev.
Edward J. Moran is celebrating the
40th anniversary of his ordination
to the priesthood; he has served as
the pastor of St. Anne Parish,
Shrewsbury, Mass., since 1989.
Rev. Peter H. White is celebrating
the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood; he has
served as the pastor of St. AloysiusSt. Jude Parish, Rochdale, Mass.,
since 1990.
1958
Class Chair
Braden A. Mechley
Class Correspondent
Arthur J. Andreoli
Rev. Robert A. Grattaroti is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his
ordination to the priesthood; he has
served as the pastor of St. Joseph
Parish, Charlton, Mass., since June
30, 1989.
1954
Class Chair
Barry R. McDonough
Class Correspondent
Paul F. Dupuis
St. Mary of the Annunciation
School in Danvers, Mass., recently
presented Rev. Gerard L. Dorgan
with its “Star Award,” in recognition
of his deep commitment to Catholic
education and his support of the
school. Fr. Dorgan has served as
pastor of St. Mary of the
Annunication Parish since 1991.
1959
Class Chair
William P. Maloney
Class Correspondent
John J. Ormond
The Roman Catholic Diocese of
Rochester, N.Y., announced in
December that the Most Rev.
Matthew H. Clark, bishop of the
Rochester Diocese, has been
selected by the seven other bishops
of New York state to represent the
New York dioceses on the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops’
Administrative Committee; his
three-year term began in November.
1955
Class Chair
Joseph J. Reilly
Class Correspondent
Robert F. Danahy
James A. Paradis has been selected
as an artist in residence by the
“Cultural Exchange d’Auvillar” in
Auvillar, France for the month of
June, with an exhibition of works he
creates there scheduled for
February 2003 at the French
Library in Boston. Paradis is currently pursuing his bachelor of fine
arts degree, with a major in painting, at the Massachusetts College
of Art in Boston.
1960
Class Co-Chairs
George M. Ford
George F. Sullivan Jr.
The Cedar Grove (N.J.) chapter of
the nationwide service organization,
UNICO National, recently honored
Rev. Msgr. Charles W. Gusmer by
naming him its “Man of the Year.”
Msgr. Gusmer currently serves as
the pastor of Saint Catherine of
Siena Parish in Cedar Grove.
1956
Class Chair
Daniel M. Dunn
After spending a sabbatical year in
New England, California and the
Holy Land, Rev. Donald L. Larkin,
S.J., has returned to Jamaica where
he is residing at Campion College
in Kingston and undertaking hospital ministry training, spirituality, and
weekend pastoral ministry.
1961
Class Chair
Joseph E. Dertinger Jr.
Acting Governor of New Jersey
Donald DiFrancesco notified Kevin
J. Collins in January of his appointment as a member of the New
Jersey Commission on Higher
Education. The real estate auction
and brokerage firm, Sheldon Good
& Company International, LLC,
recently announced that Kurt M.
Penn has joined the company’s
headquarters in Chicago, Ill., as a
broker associate.
1957
45th
Class Chair
William J. Ellis
Reunion
Robert W. Bruce has
retired after 20 years of service to
King County, Wash.; during the past
13 years, he has been the manager
of elections. Bruce has been
retained as an election operations
advisor by Washington’s secretary
of state. The Dec./Jan. 2002 issue
of Irish America included a profile
of Brian P. Burns as one of its
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1962
40th
Class Chair
Reunion
William J. O’Leary Jr.
Joseph P. Rymsza Jr. is now working
as a marketing representative for
Anheuser-Busch in Southwest
Florida. N. Noel Testa, M.D., is now
chief of orthopaedic service and
associate director at Bellevue
Hospital in New York City.
1963
Class Chair
Charles J. Buchta
Class Correspondent
Michael J. Toner
On March 15, Arthur L. Beaudet,
M.D., was awarded the 2002 March
of Dimes /Colonel Harland Sanders
Award for Lifetime Achievement in
the field of genetic sciences. The
Henry and Emma Meyer Professor
and Chairman of the department of
molecular and human genetics at
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas, Beaudet has led
the search for genes that underlie
cystic fibrosis, metabolic disorders
and several other diseases.
Spearheading efforts to improve
genetic counseling, diagnosis and
treatment, he has conducted
research in the areas of genomic
imprinting and gene therapy. A
member of the National Genome
Research Institute’s Board of
Scientific Counselors and the Food
and Drug Administration’s Genetic
Devices Panel, he is the author or
co-author of several reference texts,
including The Metabolic and
Molecular Bases of Inherited
Disease. Beaudet is a member of
the editorial board of the American
Journal of Medical Genetics; Human
Gene Therapy; and The Journal of
Clinical Investigation. John B.
DeRosa, who is associated with the
North Adams, Mass., law firm of
Freedman, DeRosa & Rondeau, was
profiled in the Feb. 27 edition of
the Advocate-North. Thomas H.
Kieren, president of the Manhattan
Consulting Group (MCG) in New
York City, as part of his private
equity consulting practice, has purchased a controlling interest in
Custom Corporate Photography, a
corporate photographic services
company based in New York City
and New Jersey; he now serves as
chairman and chief technical officer
of this company. In addition to
directing Custom Corporate
Photography, Kieren continues to
oversee MCG’s private equity practice. A portrait photographer with
many years of experience in the
photographic industry, he has had
his work displayed in a variety of
exhibitions, libraries and art museums. In September, Rev. Lawrence
J. “Larry” O’Keefe was named rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral in
Gallup, N.M. In October, he was
elected vice president/presidentelect of the Canon Law Society of
America.
1965
Class Co-Chairs
David J. Martel
Thomas F. McCabe Jr.
The Boston College Law School
Alumni Association has selected
James J. Marcellino as the recipient
of its William J. Kenealy, S.J.,
Alumnus of the Year Award.
Marcellino, who is a partner in the
Boston law office of McDermott,
Will & Emery, concentrates his
practice on business and intellectual property litigation.
1966
Class Chair
Kenneth M. Padgett
Class Correspondent
William L. Juska Jr.
Richard D. Bove, who is retiring as
a full professor from Massachusetts
Bay Community College, Wellesley
Hills, Mass., in June, after 31 years
of service, is to continue to teach as
a part-time instructor at both
Massachusetts Bay and University
College, Northeastern University,
Boston. Ronald J. Ferreri is now the
vice president for development and
college relations at Spring Hill
College, Mobile, Ala.
1967
35th
Class Co-Chairs
John J. McLaughlin Jr.
Reunion
John P. Sindoni
George W. Conk has been appointed an adjunct professor at Fordham
University Law School in New York
City, teaching products liability law.
J. Carlton “Carl” Gartner Jr., M.D.,
recently accepted the position of
pediatrician in chief at A.I. duPont
Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del. The Friendly Sons of
St. Patrick of Lackawanna County in
Pennsylvania selected Christopher
J. Matthews as the guest speaker at
its annual dinner held in March in
Dickson City. Matthews is the host
of the cable interview show
Hardball.
1968
Class Co-Chairs
Alfred J. Carolan Jr.
John T. Collins
Brian W. Hotarek
David A. Shanks has been promoted to chief executive of the book
publishing company Penguin
Putnam.
1969
Class Co-Chairs
David H. Drinan
James W. Igoe
Daniel L. Spada, M.D.
In January, the Greater LaconiaWeirs Beach (N.H.) Chamber of
Commerce presented James M.
Carroll IV with its Jim Irwin Award
for Outstanding Community
Service. In addition to serving 10
years as Laconia city prosecutor,
Mr. Carroll has been active in youth
advocacy, founding the Belknap
County Teen Center, and serving on
various boards, including the
Juvenile Justice Initiative; he has
also coached basketball and baseball in Laconia for more than 30
years. Carroll has recently accepted
a position with the Laconia law firm
of Wescott, Millham & Dyer. The
Feb. 11 issue of Worcester Business
Journal included an interview with
James W. Igoe titled, “It’s like opening Pandora’s Box,” concerning the
topics of historic preservation and
economic development. Igoe currently serves as the executive director of the Boston-based Historic
Massachusetts Inc.
its faith, its culture and its communal ethics.” Rabbi Cohen, who
received his master of arts degree
in Hebrew letters from HUC-JIR,
currently serves as the spiritual
leader of the Bet Shalom
Congregation in Hopkins, Minn.
Mark A. Dubois has joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut
School of Law in Hartford where he
is a full-time assistant professor
teaching research writing and trial
skills. Thomas F. Hehir, who is an
instructor at Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass., serves on the
advisory board for the School of
Education at Syracuse (N.Y.)
University.
1970
Class Co-Chairs
Anthony M. Barclay
John R. Doyle, M.D.
Peter F. Purcell, M.D., has been
appointed a member of the Public
Relations Committee of the
American College of
Gastroenterology at its annual
meeting held in October in Las
Vegas, Nev. Purcell currently serves
as president of the Digestive
Disease Associates of Schenectady
in New York.
1973
Class Co-Chairs
Gregory C. Flynn
Edward P. Meyers
Robert O. Ball Jr. currently works
with Aon Group in New York City.
In November, David M. Paruti was
elected president of the Collegiate
Baseball Umpire’s Association-New
England. Stephen A. Truhon presented papers based on his
research on the Military Equal
Opportunity Climate Survey at the
International Military Testing
Association Conference in
Canberra, Australia, and at the
Equal Opportunity/Equal
Employment Opportunity
Conference in Cocoa Beach, Fla.
1971
Class Chair
Robert T. Bonagura
Class Correspondent
Jerome J. Cura Jr.
Devry Inc. recently announced that
Galen H. Graham has been named
regional vice president of DeVry
University; he is to remain president
of DeVry Institute of Technology in
Columbus, Ohio, a position he has
held since 1996. Graham’s responsibilities as regional vice president
include providing strategic and
operational leadership for the
Columbus and Virginia group of
campuses and acting as a liaison
between those campuses and
DeVry Inc.’s corporate offices in
Chicago, Ill. Stephen J. Lahey, M.D.,
has been appointed chief of cardiothoracic surgery at UMASS
Memorial Health Care and the
University of Massachusetts
Medical School in Worcester.
Robert R. Sheldon, who is currently
associated with the Bridgeport,
Conn., law firm of Tremont &
Sheldon, has been selected as a
member of the American Board of
Trial Advocates. Msgr. Thomas J.
Sullivan is celebrating the 25th
anniversary of his ordination to the
priesthood; he has served as chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester
since 1998 and director of vocations since 1995.
1974
Class Co-Chairs
Brian R. Forts
Stanley J. Kostka Jr.
Robert C. Lorette
Gary R. Edgerton has received an
honorable mention (second place)
in the 2001 John G. Cawelti Book
Award of the American Culture
Association for Outstanding
Scholarly Inquiry into American
Cultural Studies for his book, Ken
Burns’s America; he has also
received first place in the 2001 Ray
B. Browne National Book Award of
the Popular Culture Association in
the textbook category for Television
Histories: Shaping Collective
Memory in the Media Age, which
he co-edited with Peter C. Rollins.
Edgerton is chairman of the communication and theatre arts department at Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, Va.
1972
30th
Class Chair
Allan F. Kramer II
Reunion
Rev. Laurence V. Brault is
celebrating the 25th anniversary of
his ordination to the priesthood.
Pastor of Holy Angels Parish, Upton,
Mass., since 1992, he has been
active in the Worldwide Marriage
Encounter movement for the past
23 years, presenting weekends,
serving in leadership for the
Worcester area and sitting on the
National Board as part of the secretariat staff. In February, Rabbi
Norman M. Cohen was one of 12
alumni of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion
(HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati, Ohio, to
receive an honorary degree from
the college, bestowed in recognition
of “25 years of devoted service as
preservers and teachers of Judaism-
1975
Class Co-Chairs
Joseph W. Cummings
Joseph A. Sasso Jr.
In January, PowerCold Corp.,
LaVernia, Texas, announced that
Joseph C. Cahill has been named
president of Power Sources, Inc.,
the corporation’s newly acquired
co-generation company in New
York. In October, Thomas B. Getz
Sr. was appointed to a six-year term
as chairman of the New Hampshire
Public Utilities Commission. The
Uniondale, N.Y., law firm of Rivkin
Radler recently announced that
Daniel T. Hughes has rejoined the
practice as a partner in its professional liability group. Greater Media
Inc. (GMI) announced in March
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that Peter H. Smyth has been promoted to president/chief executive
officer of the company. In this position, he is to continue to oversee
the operations of radio stations in
Detroit, Philadelphia and New
Jersey as well as Boston and
assume responsibility for the company’s publishing, printing and
communication businesses. Smyth,
who joined GMI in 1986, has
served as president and chief operating officer since October 2000.
1976
Class Chair
Thomas E. Ryan
Class Correspondent
Thomas C. Healey
Thomas C. Healey was one of the
individuals mentioned in the article,
“An Army of Heroes” (New Jersey
Monthly, January 2002), which honored all the New Jersey residents
who responded to the rescue and
recovery efforts at the site of the
World Trade Center as the magazine’s “2001 New Jerseyans of the
Year.” Healey, who is the director of
corporate communications for the
online billing company, Princeton
(N.J.) eCom, is also a Plainsboro,
N.J., volunteer firefighter and crisis
counselor. Msgr. James P. Moroney,
who is the executive director of the
U.S. Catholic bishops’ Secretariat
for the Liturgy in Washington, D.C.,
has been named a Chaplain to His
Holiness, Pope John Paul II, with
the title of monsignor. Michael J.
Scanlon currently serves as vocational specialist at West Springfield
(Mass.) High School.
1977
25th
Class Co-Chairs
Kathleen T. Connolly
Reunion
Shaun P. Mathews
Mary Lee Bulat is the director of
Beardsley & Memorial Library,
Winsted, Conn. The “Sunday Life”
section of the Dec. 23 edition of
The Hartford Courant featured a
profile of Fayne E. Erickson who is
the publisher of Ms. Magazine in
New York City. The Harvard-MIT
Division of Health Sciences and
Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has
named Maria S. Judge administrative officer. Margaret M. “Meg”
LaVigne is now the vice president
and general manager of two television stations, UPN27 in Norfolk,
Va., and UPN69 in Atlanta, Ga.
Brian G. Leary has joined the
Boston law firm of Gadsby Hannah,
concentrating his practice on
emerging growth and technology as
well as public strategy. Karen Furey
Liebert, M.D., is an obstetriciangynecologist in Bradenton, Fla.
Patricia K. “Patty” Malgieri is the
president and chief executive officer of the Center for Governmental
Research Inc. in Rochester, N.Y.
Colin F. Mayo, who teaches math at
Croatan High School in Newport,
N.C., was recently named a national
board certified teacher by the
National Board of Professional
Teaching Standards. On March 18,
Barron’s Online featured a Q &A
with Paul S. Stuka, who is a principal of the Boston-based investment
firm, Osiris Partners.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., ’62
Gregory J. McGarry ’70 and Anthony S.
Fauci, M.D., ’62
O
n March 27, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.,
was named the winner of the $500,000
Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine
and Biomedical Research. He received the
award in recognition of his efforts to develop
effective therapies for AIDS as well as other
diseases affecting the immune system. Fauci
was also honored for his overall contributions
to the advancement of science and for his distinguished public service.
Director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda,
Md., since 1984, he began working at the
center in 1968. During the first five years of
his tenure, Fauci developed effective therapies
for treating several rheumatic diseases.
Beginning in 1981, he focused his attention
1978
Class Co-Chairs
Marcia Hennelly Moran
Mark T. Murray
Michael H. Shanahan
The Bishop of Providence, R.I.,
recently appointed Edward M. “Ed”
Burgess to the board of directors of
St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket.
Charles F. “Chuck” Mullen and his
wife, Sue, announce the birth of
their son, Patrick Clayton, on Dec.
28. Mullen has opened the second
location for Muldoon’s in Houston,
Texas. First Financial Trust, a federally chartered bank in Framingham,
Mass., recently announced that
Mark T. Murray has been appointed
to the newly created position of vice
president, business development. In
March, eSecLending, a global securities lending manager headquartered in Boston, appointed Karen L.
O’Connor chief financial officer; her
responsibilities include oversight of
the company’s financial strategy
and personnel. Thomas J. Solitario
has joined Philips Electronics as the
director of sales for North AmericaEast in the digital transmissions
group.
on the AIDS epidemic, spearheading research
on the effect of HIV, the AIDS virus, on the
immune system, and working to develop
effective therapies and a vaccine to combat
the disease. Following the anthrax attack last
fall, he appeared with U.S. Secretary of
Health and Human Services Tommy G.
Thompson as a government spokesperson on
the disease and other bioterrorist health
threats.
Fauci received his M.D. from Cornell
University Medical College in 1966. He and
his wife, Christine, have three daughters, ages
15, 13 and 10.
The Albany Medical Center Prize in
Medicine and Biomedical Research was established by New York City-based philanthropist
and Troy, N.Y., native Morris Silverman,
who, in 2000, pledged $50 million to the
medical center to endow the prize for a century. Created “as part of a new and significant
effort to encourage and recognize extraordinary and sustained contributions to improving health care and promoting innovative
biomedical research,” the Albany Prize is the
largest award in medicine offered in the
United States and the next largest internationally, second to Sweden’s Nobel Prize.
Fauci received the prize at the April 17
award event held at Franklin Plaza in Troy,
N.Y.
1979
accelerated growth. Margaret
Lanzetta is an artist-in-residence
during the spring ’02 semester at
the University of Southern Maine in
Portland; her residency includes
creation of a large-scale wall mural
in the new library and a solo exhibition of her recent paintings and
works on paper in the university
gallery. Edward G. McAnaney has
been elected the judge of probate,
District of Suffield, Conn. As a captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he
recently concluded an extended
period of active duty during which
he served as the chief of staff and
acting commander of the George
Washington Carrier Battle Group,
comprised of 11 ships and submarines and 70 aircaft, at sea. The
April 7 edition of the Worcester
Sunday Telegram & Gazette included a profile of Thomas J. Ouellette,
who recently directed the production of Barefoot in the Park, by Neil
Simon, at the Worcester Foothills
Theatre Company. Ouellette, who
had been associated with the theatre from 1987 to 1996 as an actor
and director, currently teaches in
the acting and directing program at
Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
Class Co-Chairs
Glennon L. Paredes
Deborah Pelles
Catherine Engstrom, who is an
associate professor of higher education in the School of Education at
Syracuse (N.Y.) University, is participating with a colleague in an international project to develop programs to assist disadvantaged youth
in gaining access to and completing
higher education in the Netherlands. Eileen Fitzpatrick Fickes and
her husband, Joe, announce the
birth of their son, Michael Joseph,
on May 21, 2001. Lisa M. Fleming
has recently been appointed a partner at the Boston law firm of
Bromberg & Sunstein; she concentrates her practice in employment
law and benefits and in business
and intellectual property litigation.
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of
Boston recently announced the
appointment of John J. Holiver to
the post of senior vice president
and chief operating officer. His
responsibilities include oversight of
all hospital operations, including
patient care services, surgical and
operative services and general support services as well as leadership
of the center’s efforts to achieve
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1980
Class Co-Chairs
J. Christopher Collins
Elizabeth Palomba Sprague
Kathleen L. Wiese
Mark E. Tramontozzi, M.D., has
been elected a corporator at Dime
Savings Bank in Norwich, Conn.
Tramontozzi maintains a general
and vascular surgery practice in
Norwich and serves as the attending surgeon at The William W.
Backus Hospital.
1981
Class Co-Chairs
James G. Healy
Elizabeth Stevens Murdy
William J. Supple
The Hartford (Conn.) Financial
Services Group announced in
January that Frederick H. Eppinger
has been named the executive vice
president of property-casualty field
and service operations. In March,
Boston Partners Asset Management
announced that William J. Supple
has joined the firm as senior vice
president and director of the company’s Taft-Hartley business. His
responsibilities include sales, marketing and client service. Prior to
joining Boston Partners, Supple had
been vice president and a member
of the Taft-Hartley group at Mellon
Institutional Asset Management in
Boston, in charge of sales and client
service in New England and the
Midwest. He currently serves as a
trustee for the commonwealth of
Massachusetts Health Care
Security Trust, which is responsible
for investing settlement funds from
the state’s tobacco lawsuits.
1982
20th
Class Co-Chairs
Jean Kelly Cummings
Reunion
Susan L. Sullivan
Paul K. Kelly Jr. is a senior gasoline
trader for British Petroleum (BP) in
Waterville, Ill. Bernard J. “Bernie”
Kilkelly and his wife, Maureen,
announce the adoption of their
daughter, Bernadette Elizabeth,
born on June 25, 2001. Walter J.
O’Donnell, M.D., is the clinical
director of pulmonary at
Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston. Jacqueline Girard Vogl and
her husband, Steven, announce the
birth of their son, Sean Joseph, on
Dec. 25. Daniel J. Walsh is
employed by Red Hat Inc. as a software engineer/security specialist.
1983
Class Co-Chairs
Patricia G. Haylon
David J. Trasatti
Brian P. Kelley, who has been president of Lincoln Mercury, a division
of Ford Motor Co., Dearborn,
Mich., since January, attended the
grand opening of Lincoln Mercury’s
newest car dealership in
Shrewsbury, Mass., on March 1.
Mary Sheila (McGarvey) McDonald
has been named assistant dean for
graduate business programs at
Philadelphia (Pa.) University.
Rosemary C. Reid and her husband,
Paul, announce the arrival of their
daughter, Katherine Duyen
Comerford; born on Nov. 14, 2000;
she arrived from Vietnam on June 4,
2001.
1971
Richard J. Leon
O
n Feb. 14, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination
of Richard J. “Dick” Leon of Maryland as U.S. District
Court judge for the District of Columbia. Nominated to the
judgeship by President Bush in September, he received his
commission on Feb. 19.
During his career, Leon has spent many years in private
practice and public service. A partner in the Washington,
D.C., law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease from 1999
to 2002, he had previously been associated with the
Washington, D.C., office of Baker & Hostetler. In addition,
Leon served as special counsel, Ethics Reform Task Force,
U.S. House of Representatives in 1997; special counsel
(Whitewater investigation), Banking, Finance & Urban
Affairs Committee, in 1994; and chief minority counsel,
“October Surprise” Task Force, Foreign Affairs Committee,
U.S. House of Representatives, 1992-93. Previously, he had
been deputy assistant attorney general, Environmental &
Natural Resources Division, U.S. House of Representatives,
1988-89; deputy chief minority counsel, Select “IranContra” Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 198788; and senior trial attorney, Tax Division, U.S. Department
of Justice, 1983-87. Assistant professor at St. John’s
University School of Law from 1979 to 1983, Leon has been
an adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of
Law from 1997 to the present.
At the start of his career, he had served as a law clerk for
Chief Justice Walter McLaughlin, Superior Court of
Massachusetts, from 1974-75, and as a law clerk for Thomas
Kelleher, Supreme Court of Rhode Island, from 1975-76.
He had also been an attorney for the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice, from
1976-77, and special assistant U.S. attorney, Civil Division,
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, from
1977-78.
Leon received his juris doctor in 1974 from Suffolk
University Law School in Boston and his LL.M. in 1979
from Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
1984
Class Co-Chairs
Fred J. O’Connor
Carmine L. Salvucci
Richard W. Shea Jr.
Peter J. Dirksmeier, M.D., and his
wife, Caren, announce the birth of
their daughters, Emily Kathleen, on
Jan. 8, 2000, and Meghan Grace,
on May 7, 2001. Dirksmeier is an
orthopedic spine surgeon working
in private practice in New
Hampshire. The Boston Junior
Chamber of Commerce recently
announced that David J. Grain has
been selected as a recipient of one
of its Ten Outstanding Young
Leader Awards, presented to individuals aged 21 to 40 “who have
distinguished themselves from their
peers in all facets of their lives,
including personal, professional and
civic responsibilities.” Grain currently serves as senior vice president, New England region, of AT&T
Broadband. Thomas P. Haskins and
his wife, Barbara, announce the
birth of their daughter, Olivia Gail,
on July 31. Cmdr. Judie (Szatowski)
Heineman, USN, is currently a student at the Naval War College in
Newport, R.I. St. Joseph Community
Services, Inc., Merrimack, N.H.,
recently announced that Diane
Murphy Quinlan has been appointed to its board of directors.
Quinlan, who is an officer with the
Manchester, N.H., law firm of
Devine, Millimet & Branch, specializes in labor and employment law.
1985
Class Co-Chairs
Thomas M. Flynn
Joseph Terranova
Class Correspondent
Joanne S. Niland
James R. Pescosolido, M.D., who
retired from active duty with the Air
Force, has established a private
practice in psychiatry in Vacaville,
Calif.
1986
Class Co-Chairs
Patrick L. McCarthy Jr.
Kathleen A. Quinn
Maura C. Doherty and her husband,
Stephen, announce the birth of
their daughter, Cori Ruth, on Oct.
29. Doherty is now serving as general counsel at Market Metrics Inc.,
Quincy, Mass., a market research
and consulting firm which advises
the financial services and life insurance industries. Francis X. “Chip”
Flaherty Jr. and his wife, Leslie ’90,
announce the birth of their daughter, Abigail Elizabeth, on Oct. 2.
Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a
public affairs services consulting
firm in Washington, D.C.,
announced that Marc S. Lampkin
has joined its government relations
team. Catherine “Kitty” Kane Ronis
was recently named a partner in the
Washington, D.C., firm of Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering; she specializes
in communications and e-com-
left-to-right: Richard J. Leon ’71, with son Nicholas and wife
Christine, being sworn in by classmate Clarence Thomas ’71
during the March 20 ceremony at the United States Supreme
Court.
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merce litigation. Michael A. Simons
and his wife, Karen, announce the
birth of their daughter, Molly
Moritz, on March 4. Simons is a
professor at St. John’s University
School of Law in Jamaica, N.Y.
MARRIED: Thomas M. Ryan and
Stephanie A. Wood, on June 2,
2001, at Ocean Cliff in Newport,
R.I.
1987
15th
Class Co-Chairs
Erin B. Grimes
Reunion
Kathleen E. Moylan
James W. Nawn Jr.
Thomas J. Conte and his wife, Ellen
’88, announce the birth of their
daughter, Amelia Margaret, on Dec.
27. Charles E. “Ted” Graney and his
wife, Jill, announce the birth of their
daughter, Grace Caroline, on Jan.
19. Leila B. Hooshmand and her
husband, Ted ’88, announce the
birth of their daughter, Aiveen
Saoirse, on Sept. 13. Susanne B.
and Christian M. McGannon
announce the birth of their son,
Christian Barrington, on Oct. 30.
Christian is now a partner at the
Garden City, N.Y., law firm of
Picciano & Scahill. Gina (Guarino)
Ryan and her husband, Peter,
Thomas Anthony, on Dec. 28. Mary
Hohman Zinsner, who is a partner
in the McLean, Va., law firm of
Troutman Sanders Mays &
Valentine, was the recipient of the
Virginia Bar Association Young
Lawyers Division (VBA/YLD)
Fellows Award. A member of the
complex litigation group at
Troutman Sanders, Zinsner has
served as a member of the executive committee of YLD since 1997.
She also developed the VBA/YLD’s
“Stop the Violence!” program and
held the position of statewide coordinator of the division’s regional Pro
Bono Hotlines, which provide assistance to legal aid offices in handling
caseloads.
MARRIED: Paul W. Fuegner and
Michele Lee, on Sept. 1, at St.
Catherine’s Church in Sonoma
Valley, Calif. Lt. Cmdr. Karen A.
Tsiantas, USN, and Maj. Bradley
Weisz, USMC, on Dec. 29, at the
Greek Orthodox Church of the
Annunciation, Newburyport, Mass.
1988
Class Co-Chairs
Ellen S. Conte
Paul E. Demit
John A. Callinan and his wife,
Margaret, announce the birth of
their daughter, Jacqueline Rose, on
Oct. 27. Francis E. Casale is a managing director for private capital
investments at S.A.C. Capital
Advisors in Stamford, Conn. Ellen S.
Conte and her husband, Thomas
daughter, Amelia Margaret, on Dec.
27. Thomas K. Diverio and his wife,
Kristine ’89, announce the birth of
their son, Nicholas James, on Nov.
25. Kevin P. Fitzpatrick and his
wife, Patricia ’89, announce the
birth of their daughter, Marie
Thérese, on Dec. 19, 2000. Carla
Iudica-Souza and her husband,
Mauricio, announce the birth of
their son, Lucas, on Dec. 20.
William P. Kelly is a partner in the
New York City law firm of McCarthy
& Kelly. C. Neal Keye, who received
his Ph.D. from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is
now an assistant professor of bilingual culture at the College of St.
Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. Amy
Beecher Knowles now works for the
New York University College of
Dentistry in New York City as the
associate director of admissions.
Paul B. McMahon and his wife,
Michelle, announce the birth of
their son, William Henry II, on May
3, 2001. Claire (Rogers) Morris and
her husband, Jim, announce the
birth of their daughter, Hailey Julie,
on Sept. 28. Morris continues to
work as a vice president in the
equities division at Goldman Sachs
in New York City. Jared T. Noering
now works in London as the director of treasury and agency trading
for Merrill Lynch. Edward P. “Ted”
Pidcock and his wife, Leila ’87,
announce the birth of their daughter, Aiveen Saoirse, on Sept. 13.
Eric J. Schuck, M.D., has opened his
own pediatrics practice, Bishop &
Schuck Pediatrics, in State College,
Pa. Elizabeth B. (Gay) and Dennis
R. Scribner Jr., M.D.¸announce the
birth of their daughter, Catherine
Elizabeth, on Feb. 15. The Scribners
have relocated to Knoxville, Tenn.,
where Dennis has joined the staff
of East Tennessee Women’s Care;
he is affiliated with the University of
Tennessee Hospital and other local
hospitals. Dennis completed his fellowship in gynecologic oncology in
June 2001. Mary Noeth Slattery and
her husband, Keith, announce the
birth of their daughter, Caroline
Lee, on Nov. 15. Teresa “Tracy”
(O’Mara) Spesia and her husband,
Dave, announce the birth of their
daughter, Teresa Loretta, on May
24, 2001. Spesia, who is a part-time
adjunct at the University of St.
Francis in Joliet, Ill., works in the
College of Education supervising
student teachers. Nancy (Reidy)
Williams and her husband, Brian,
announce the birth of their daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, on Nov. 10.
MARRIED: Thomas J. Benison and
Maria C. Ricarte, on March 9, at
the Church of the Little Flower in
Coral Gables, Fla. Francis E. Casale
and Kristin Pisacano, on Feb. 23, at
St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic
Church in New York City. George T.
Dowd III and Wendy L. Strauss, at
Chatham (Mass.) Bars Inn.
1989
Class Chairs
Christina M. Buckley
Sean T. McHugh
Diana M. Beauchemin and her husband, Gary, announce the birth of
their son, Joshua Matthew, on Oct.
27, 2000. Kristine E. Diverio and
her husband, Thomas ’88,
Nicholas James, on Nov. 25. Patricia
O’Kane Fitzpatrick and her husband, Kevin ’88, announce the birth
of their daughter, Marie Thérese, on
Dec. 19, 2000. Michelle
(McManus) Freeman and her hus-
band, Matthew, announce the birth
of their son, John Matthew, in May.
Freeman now works at State Street
Corp. in Quincy, Mass. Michael P.
Riendeau and his wife, Mary Ann,
announce the birth of their daughter, Emmeline Grace, on March 18.
Kevin J. Shea, who is the director of
communications and baseball information for the Boston Red Sox, on
weekends serves as a Hockey East
and ECAC linesman-assistant referee. Kenneth J. Zimmer and his wife,
Jill, announce the birth of their
daughter, Grace Lawson, on Nov. 6.
Cédric Andrew, on Aug. 20. Petion
is currently teaching Russian at
Holy Cross. Barbara Berry Storen
and her husband, Stephen ’91,
announce the birth of their daughter, Caroline Malloy, on Jan. 21.
1993
Class Co-Chairs
Patrick J. Comerford
Patrick J. Sansonetti Jr.
Amy (Kachinsky) and Nicholas J.
Alessi III announce the birth of their
son, Nicholas Joseph IV, on Oct. 5.
David J. Crowley and his wife,
Christina ’95, announce the birth of
their daughter, Grace Mary, on Jan.
23. Capt. Thomas P. Humann,
USMC, who is now assigned to the
Presidential Helicopter Squadron,
flies Marine One; he accompanied
President Bush on his January visit
to Boston and New Hampshire.
Timothy M. Kelly and his wife,
Susan ’94, announce the birth of
their daughter, Caroline Margaret,
on Sept. 17. Nancy (Campobasso)
Slaney and her husband, Paul,
Brendan Michael, on Sept. 12. The
March 31 edition of Metrowest
Sunday News, Framingham, Mass.,
included a profile of the music
career of Jennifer Tefft in its Arts &
Culture section article, titled “So
you want to be a rock ’n’ roll star:
You don’t have to sell millions to
‘make it’ as a musician.” A vocalist,
accompanied by a three-member
band, and a songwriter, Tefft has
played the small-club circuit for the
past 10 years and has produced
three compact discs, Dig This
Thing, B-Sides to Nothing, and
Shift; she is also employed by Artist
Development Associates in
Framingham, Mass. James G.
Whitehouse and his wife, Danielle,
announce the birth of their daughter, Rachel Elizabeth, on Oct. 9.
Whitehouse has recently accepted
the position of special assistant
state attorney for the city of St.
Augustine, Fla.; in this capacity, he
serves as the city’s prosecutor and
as staff counsel.
MARRIED: Staci L. Sawyer and
Christopher W. Kolb, on Dec. 31.
1990
Class Co-Chairs
Paul V. Buckley
Mark P. Wickstrom
Class Co-Correspondents
Nancy L. Meaney
Lisa M. Villa
Mary E. Chmura, M.D., and her
husband, Wayne, announce the
birth of their daughter, Kathryn
Grace, on Dec. 31. Chmura is a
physician for the Indian Health
Service in Cherokee, N.C. Leslie
Reilly Flaherty and her husband,
Chip ’86, announce the birth of
their daughter, Abigail Elizabeth, on
Oct. 2. Michael A. McDermott and
his wife, Tracy, announce the birth
of their daughter, Kate, on Sept. 12,
2001.
1991
Class Co-Chairs
Peter J. Capizzi
Kristin M. Kraeger
In January, First Albany Corp. in
New York City announced that
Timothy J. McCooey has joined the
firm as the director of listed trading
and New York Stock Exchange floor
operations. Thomas B. Miller, M.D.,
has joined the staff of Bristol
(Conn.) Hospital. Stephen D.
“Duke” Storen and his wife,
Barbara ’92, announce the birth of
their daughter, Caroline Malloy, on
Jan. 21. Storen has accepted the
position of director of benefits programs for the Department of Social
Services in Richmond, Va.
1994
Class Co-Chairs
Julia F. Gentile McCann
Amanda M. Murphy
Carlos R. Estrada and his wife, Bita,
Cameron, on Oct. 18. Estrada is in
the fourth year of his urology residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St.
Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago,
Ill. Timothy J. Harrington, who
received his degree from Suffolk
University Law School, Boston, in
May 2001, is currently completing a
one-year clerkship for U.S.
Magistrate Judge Robert Lovegreen
in Providence, R.I. Megan (Grimes)
and Douglas R. Hayden announce
the birth of their daughter, Bridget
Mary, on Feb. 16. Susan (Giordano)
Kelly and her husband, Tim ’93,
announce the birth of their daughter, Caroline Margaret, on Sept. 17.
Michael K. Mahoney and his wife,
Andrea, announce the birth of their
daughter, Caroline Eldridge, on Jan.
5. George D. Marron and his wife,
MARRIED: Charles S. Deckers and
Kathryn B. Roof, at the Seacrest
Resort, North Falmouth, Mass. Erin
K. Moore and James P. Axton, on
Oct. 6, at St. Therese’s Church in
Shavertown, Pa.
1992
10th
Class Co-Chairs
Heather L. Keaveny
Reunion
Sean T. Keaveny
Christopher J. Serb
Laureen (Miffitt) “Laurie” McGourty
and her husband, Sean, announce
the birth of their son, Matthew
Sean, on Oct. 14. Brian M.
McKenzie is a founding partner of
Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, a
full-service commercial real estate
firm located in Boston. His responsibilities include providing real
estate advisory services to both tenants and landlords throughout suburban Boston. Juliette Dunn Petion
and her husband, Laurent,
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Caitlin, announce the birth of their
daughter, Brigid Rosemary, on Jan.
16. Marron works as an associate
with a law firm in Rochester, N.Y.
Barbara M. O’Brien, M.D., is completing her chief residency year in
obstetrics/gynecology at New
England Medical Center in Boston.
Michael A. Shustak and his wife,
Kerrin, announce the birth of their
daughter, Mya Marie, on Oct. 20.
Shustak, who received his degree
from Tufts Dental School, Medford,
Mass., in 2000, now lives in North
Carolina and serves as a captain in
the Air Force. Michael S. Sintros
works as the director of the Greek
Orthodox Diocese of Boston Camp
and Retreat Center in Contoocook,
N.H., and, also, as a social worker
for N.H. Child & Family Services.
Matthew J. Sweeney currently
works as a school counselor at
Somers High School in Lincolndale,
N.Y. Since August 2001, Stephen H.
Urgola has been serving as the
archivist at the American University
in Cairo, Egypt, curating the
school’s historical records as well
as architecture and photograph collections.
MARRIED: Barry A. Bruno and
Jennifer E. Mermans, on Feb. 2, in
St. Peter and Paul Church in the
Florida Keys. Michael S. Houllahan
and Julie A. Millerick ’96, on July
14, in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel.
Jonathan A. Kocienda and Tammy
Hannon, on Aug. 11, in St. Joseph
Memorial Chapel. Emily A.
Nusbaum and Nathan Mintz in
Columbus, Ohio, in August. Barbara
M. O’Brien, M.D., and Liam O’Shea,
on May 26, 2001, at St. Julia’s
Church, Weston, Mass. Michael C.
Stracco and Laura E. Hennessy, on
Aug. 11, at St. Ann’s Church in
Quincy, Mass.
1995
Class Co-Chairs
Christopher J. Caslin
B. Timothy Keller
Shelagh Foley O’Brien
Sonia M. Barbosa is currently the
project manager of the Diversity
Archive at the Henry Murray
Research Center, Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study, at Harvard
University in Cambridge, Mass.
Christina Mercogliano Crowley and
her husband, David ’93, announce
the birth of their daughter, Grace
Mary, on Jan. 23. Margot M.
DeKorte recently joined the board
of trustees of Bray Family Academy,
an independent, nonprofit middle
school serving the children of economically underprivileged families
in New Jersey. DeKorte, who is an
associate with the Somerville (N.J.)
law firm of Norris, McLaughlin &
Marcus, practices in the corporate
department. The Calvert School,
Baltimore, Md., recently announced
that Patrick J. Slattery has been
appointed head of its new middle
school, effective July 1.
MARRIED: Sonia M. Barbosa and
Alirio da Silva, on Dec. 8. Joey A.
DeCosta and Paul A. Tryon, on Oct.
6, at the Craigville (Mass.) Tabernacle. Michael K. Keenan and
Catherine R. Lapcevic ’96, on June
23, 2001, in St. Catherine of Siena
Church, Riverside, Conn. Edward
M. O’Brien and Ashleigh E. M.
Asaph, at the Church of Our
Saviour in New York City.
1996
Class Co-Chairs
Jennifer E. Burns
Holly R. Khachadoorian
Christopher L. Sears
Julie Wright DelPrado was one of a
group of artists and organizations
from New London County, Conn.,
selected to participate in the Urban
Artists Initiative, a three-year artist
training and leadership program
sponsored by the Connecticut
Commission on the Arts, in partnership with the Institute for Community Research; the initiative provides participants with professional
training, grants, mentors and technical assistance. The law faculty of
the National University of Ireland,
Galway, has appointed Lawrence P.
Donnelly a visiting fellow in law for
the academic year 2001-02. During
the 2001-02 academic year, Ericka
J. Fisher has been a lecturer in the
sociology department at Holy
Cross. Rebecca A. Galeota, who
joined the Boston office of
Cushman & Wakefield in 2000 as a
broker, works in the Downtown
office market. The March 22 issue
of the Boston Business Journal featured Galeota in its column,
“Rookie of the Year.” Rachel E.
Keeler is vice president of the
Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu, the
Jesuit honor society. Michael P.
MacDonald and his wife, Lisa,
Luke Michael, on Jan. 16.
MacDonald continues to work for a
Toronto, Canada-based office furniture manufacturer as a divisional
vice president of sales for the
Northeast United States.
Magdalena Malecki-Tauber and her
husband, David, announce the birth
of their daughter, Kristina Dorothy,
on Jan. 31. Malecki-Tauber, who
received her degree from Tufts
University School of Dental
Medicine in Boston last year, is currently completing her residency in
pediatric dentistry at Connecticut
Children’s Hospital in Hartford.
Gina M. Miele is pursuing her Ph.D.
at Harvard University in Cambridge,
Mass. In addition to teaching
English and reading at Thurgood
Marshall Middle School in Lynn,
Mass., Eric P. Sampson coaches
football at Swampscott (Mass.)
High School and baseball at St.
Mary’s High School. Diane
(Costello) Schwerdt is completing
her master’s degree in social work
at Simmons College in Boston.
MARRIED: Sheila C. Collins and
Michael D. Wheeler, on Sept. 15, at
St. Mary’s Church in Lee, Mass.
Diane K. Costello and Paul
Schwerdt, on Aug. 18. Kevin J.
Dixon and Emily L. Moore, on July
7, in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel.
Julie-Ann Green and Jonathan K.
Mack ’97, on May 27, in St. Joseph
Memorial Chapel. Catherine R.
Lapcevic and Michael K. Keenan
’95, on June 23, in St. Catherine of
Siena Church, Riverside, Conn. Julie
MARRIED: Mark A. Costiglio and
Jaime M. Cellitti, in October, in
Minneapolis, Minn. Shanna M.
Garvey and Brian McFadden, on
Nov. 11, in St. Joseph Memorial
Chapel.
A. Millerick and Michael S.
Houllahan ’94, on July 14, in St.
Joseph Memorial Chapel. Jeanine C.
O’Brien and Brian Waldron, on July
14, in Philadelphia, Pa. Katherine
M. Riordan and Michael Wolusky,
on Sept. 29, in St. Joseph Memorial
Chapel.
1997
1999
Class Co-Chairs
Roland A. Baroni III
Sara F. Slater
Stephen N. Mack and his wife, Kate
daughter, Mikaila Ann, on June 13,
2001. F. Daniel O’Connor, who has
relocated to Hollywood, Calif., currently works for Pepper Productions
as a talent scout. Courtney K.
O’Hara joined the Boston certified
public accounting firm of Vitale,
Caturano & Co.; her responsibilities
include providing a variety of tax,
accounting and business advisory
services for the firm. Melissa J.
Phair, who received her master’s
degree in social work, specializing
in Deaf and Hard of Hearing populations, from Gallaudet University in
Washington, D.C., currently works
at the Gallaudet University Regional
Center in Haverhill, Mass. Cristine
M. Picariello currently teaches at
Swampscott (Mass.) High School.
In his second year with the “Jet
Program,” Brent M. Reilly is teaching English as a second language to
middle-school children in Japan.
Carla M. Riccobono is completing
her master’s degree in social work
at Columbia University in New York
City. On Jan. 6, Emeline G. Tolod
and Edward J. Richer ran the Walt
Disney World Marathon as part of
the team-in-training program of the
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Kevin R. Susienka, who works for
the nonprofit organization,
Alternatives Unlimited Inc., teaches
basic life skills to adults with developmental disabilities in the company’s Community Connections program located in Wrentham, Mass.
Annemarie C. van den Broeck is
currently pursuing her master’s
degree at the London School of
Economics and Political Science.
5th
Class Co-Chairs
Brian T. O’Connor
Reunion
Julie E. Orio
Marnie J. Cambria, M.D.
Joann P. Benigno is pursuing her
Ph.D. in developmental psychology
at the University of Florida in
Gainesville. Christina N. Davilas,
who is completing her degree from
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y., in
May, has accepted a position with
Bingham Dana in Boston. Lt. Mark
N. Ferrara, USN, is stationed on
board the dock landing ship, USS
Fort McHenry, based in Sasebo,
Japan. Paul G. Gerardi is now the
associate circulation manager for
Circulation Specialists Inc. in South
Norwalk, Conn. Joseph D. Hewitt,
who received his Ph.D. in analytical
chemistry from Duke University,
Durham, N.C., in December, has
relocated to Ann Arbor, Mich., and
now works for Varian, Inc. Amy
(Hohmann) Roberge and her husband, Brian, announce the birth of
their daughter, Allison Elizabeth, on
March 27. Roberge is currently
employed as a senior accountant at
Bain Capital, LLC. Iram Valentin,
who received his degree from
Fordham University Law School,
New York City, in May 2001, is serving as a law clerk to Judge Joseph P.
Perfilio of the Superior Court of
New Jersey, Special Civil Part, for
2001-02.
MARRIED: Tara J. Hannigan and
Bryan M. Kozlowski, on Nov. 3, at
Sacred Heart Church in Pittsfield,
Mass. Jonathan K. Mack and JulieAnn Green ’96, on May 27, in St.
Joseph Memorial Chapel. Kelly A.
Sierkowski and Paul Nolan, on Nov.
17, in Ansonia, Conn. Monica M.
Walsh and Brian T. Swanson, on
Aug. 25, at Center Church in
Manchester, Conn.
MARRIED: Stephen N. Mack and
Kate M. Kelley ’03, on Aug. 11, in
All Saints Catholic Church,
Ogunquit, Maine.
1998
Class Co-Chairs
Christian P. Browne
Alyssa R. Hotte
Eric B. Javier
Cara A. Fauci, who received her
degree from Boston College Law
School in May 2001, is currently an
associate at the Boston law firm of
Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch
& Ford, specializing in the area of
civil litigation. Shanna Garvey
McFadden is a teacher and college
advisor at the Worcester Women’s
Community Correction Center.
After receiving his degree from
UConn Law School last spring,
Capt. Richard F. Topping Jr., USA,
attended the U.S. Army’s Infantry,
Airborne, and Judge Advocate
General (JAG) Schools. He is now a
JAG officer with the 10th Mountain
Division of Fort Drum, N.Y., practicing in the areas of claims and combat operations law.
2000
Class Co-Chairs
Jason C. Hoffmann
Kathryn R. Remmes
Christopher J. Brislin works for
Marriott International, Newport,
R.I., in event planning/sales and
marketing. Leslie E. Crockett works
as a program coordinator at
Harvard Medical International while
taking graduate classes. 2nd Lt.
Timothy J. McLaughlin, USMC, is an
armor platoon commander at 29
Palms California. David B.
Rockwood has accepted a position
as a production assistant with
David E. Kelley Productions,
Manhattan Beach, Calif. Nicholas
Sberlati currently works as a trust
administrator in the institutional
trust department at JP Morgan
Chase Bank in New York City.
Katherine M. Szyfelbein is currently
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a first-year student at Harvard
Medical School in Boston.
2001
Class Chairs
Sarah K. Foley
Janelle M. Hraiki
Megan E. Kehew
Tiffany L. DeCoff teaches Spanish
and coaches soccer and basketball
at Danvers (Mass.) High School.
Since November, Marina-Alexia N.
Vernicos has been working in the
marketing department of Citibank
in New York City.
happened here. We feel a
responsibility for all our students, to care for them, keep
them safe and to look out for
their welfare. When something like this happens, it is
very difficult to accept or
account for it.
“At this point we do not
know all the facts about what
happened or the circumstances surrounding it. As we
learn more, we will be reviewing all of our policies and procedures to see what more we
can do to make sure that
something like this never happens again.
“Tragic events like this
remind us of how precious
and how fragile each life is.
We must redouble our efforts
to look out for one another, to
be unfailing in showing
respect and reverence for every
human being, and to avoid
the kind of irresponsible and
heedless behavior that puts
ourselves and others in danger.
“We offer our deepest
sympathy and prayers to
Jonathan’s family, who have
suffered this indescribable loss
with great dignity and generosity. We also pray for all
those implicated or in some
way affected by this, that they
may find help and peace.
“Finally, I want to commend the generosity, professionalism and kindness of all
who went out of their way to
care for the families and students affected by this terrible
occurrence.”
In Memoriam
1929
William H. McMorrow
Jan. 18, 2002
At his home in Walpole, Mass., at
93. A business executive, Mr.
McMorrow had served as the chief
executive officer of Atlee Corp.,
Delta Pearl Co., Compressed Steel
Corp. of Hyde Park and Keydata
Co., Watertown, Mass. He had also
been the president of Waltham
(Mass.) Watch Co. and Olin Co. in
Chicago, Ill. Mr. McMorrow later
served as a business consultant to
several banking institutions in the
Boston area. He is survived by two
sons; a daughter; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
1933
Thomas F. McNally
Dec. 18, 2001
In River Terrace Healthcare Center,
Lancaster, Mass., after an illness, at
91. Prior to his retirement in 1979,
Mr. McNally had been a mediator
for more than 30 years for the
Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service in Boston. He had also
taught labor relations at Babson
College, Wellesley, Mass., and at
Holy Cross. While in Washington,
D.C., Mr. McNally had served on
various committees in the U.S.
Senate; he had also been a U.S.
Capitol policeman and a bodyguard
for former vice presidents John N.
Garner and Henry A. Wallace.
During World War II, Mr. McNally
had been a gunnery officer in the
Navy. As a student at Holy Cross,
he had been a member of the track
team, serving as captain during his
last year; he had been a finalist in
the Olympic trials in 1932. Mr.
McNally is survived by two sons; six
daughters; a sister; 20 grandchildren; nephews and nieces; and
grandnephews and grandnieces.
Emil V. Pilon
Feb. 5, 2002
In Connecticut, at 90. Prior to his
retirement in 1976, Mr. Pilon had
worked for many years at United
Technologies in Hartford, Conn.
During the 1930s, he served as an
alderman and also as the acting
mayor of Hartford. Mr. Pilon had
been a Holy Cross class agent. He
is survived by four sons, including
Philip E., D.M.D., ’60; a brother; a
sister; 12 grandchildren; and 13
great-grandchildren.
1934
Joseph C. Leary, D.P.M.
Feb. 17, 2002
At Mercy Hospital, Springfield,
Mass., at 88. Prior to his retirement
in 1986, Dr. Leary practiced podiatry in Springfield for many years. An
Army veteran of World War II, he
served 21 months in China, Burma
and India, attaining the rank of captain; he was awarded a Presidential
Unit Citation, the Chinese Order of
the White Cloud and the Asiatic
Theatre Ribbon with North and
South Battle Stars. A Holy Cross
class agent, Dr. Leary was recognized as “Man of the Year” by the
Springfield chapter of the Holy
Cross Alumni Association in 1965.
He is survived by his wife, Rita; four
daughters, including Joan V. ’79;
two granddaughters; a sister; and
many cousins.
procurement officer; in this position, he had been involved in planning and establishing an air defense
system for Boston and New England
during the Cold War. At the start of
his career, Mr. Cunningham had
been employed in Boston as a
negotiator for the War Assets
Administration and the Army Corps
of Engineers. During World War II,
he served with the Army Air Force
as a noncommissioned officer in
Louisiana, California and Hawaii.
He is survived by his wife, Heloise;
a daughter; and a brother.
Alfred G. Morin Sr.
Dec. 13, 2001
In St. Francis Home, Worcester,
after a brief illness, at 91. Mr. Morin
had been the owner and director of
the J. Henri Morin & Son Funeral
Home in Spencer, Mass., from 1936
until 1974. During his career, he
had been affiliated with many
organizations, including the Holy
Cross Club of Worcester; the Holy
Cross Varsity Club; the French
Institute at Assumption College in
Worcester; and the Massachusetts
and National Funeral Directors
associations. He had been a Holy
Cross class agent. Captain of the
Holy Cross track team, Mr. Morin
had made many first-place finishes
at the Melrose games in New York
City and achieved record-setting
times. In 1932, he competed in the
long jump at the Olympic trials in
Berkeley, Calif., and served as an
alternate on the U.S. Olympic team.
Mr. Morin is survived by his wife,
Rita; a son; two grandchildren; a
great-grandson; and nephews and
nieces. His brother was the late
George A. Sr. ’31.
1938
Thomas E. Cavanaugh Jr., M.D.
Jan. 23, 2002
At the North Hill Retirement
Community, Needham, Mass., at
84. During his career, Dr.
Cavanaugh had maintained a private practice in obstetrics/gynecology, retiring in 1986. He had been
affiliated with the Boston area hospitals of St. Elizabeth’s, Brigham &
Women’s, Youville and Faulkner,
where he had served as the chief of
obstetrics/gynecology. During his
44-year career, Dr. Cavanaugh had
delivered more than 10,000 babies.
A World War II veteran, he had
served in Europe with the U.S.
Army Medical Corps, attaining the
rank of captain. Active in many professional organizations, he had
been a member of the Holy Cross
Club of Greater Boston and a
Knight Grand Cross of the
Equestrian Order of the Holy
Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Dr.
Cavanaugh had been a member of
the President’s Council at Holy
Cross. He is survived by his wife,
Margaret; three sons, including
Richard P. ’80; three daughters,
including Mary L. ’84; daughter-inlaw, Lisa A. ’80; a sister; 13 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
1937
John F. Connolly
Dec. 21, 2001
In New York, at 84. Prior to his
retirement in 1982, Mr. Connolly
had taught science for 21 years and
served as department chair at
Mineola High School on Long
Island, N.Y.; he began his teaching
career at the end of World War II.
An avid sailor, Mr. Connolly had
been a member of the Manhasset
Bay Yacht Club and the Cow Bay
Racing Association; he competed in
the National Championships in several classes, including the Sonar
Nationals in Larchmont and the
Rhodes 19 Nationals in
Marblehead, Mass., and San
Francisco, Calif. Mr. Connolly won
the Cow Bay Sonar Class
Championship in 1982 and the
Manhasset Bay Race Week
Championship in 1991. In addition
to serving as chairman of the
Manhasset Bay Race Committee for
several years, he was a founding
member of the Shields and Sonar
fleets in Manhasset Bay. Mr.
Connolly was a charter member of
the Holy Cross Club of Long Island
which honored him as “Crusader of
the Year” in 1988. A lieutenant with
the Army Engineers during World
War II, he served at Omaha Beach
during the invasion of Normandy;
he commanded a unit that cleared
land mines and built bridges. Mr.
Connolly had been a Holy Cross
class agent. He is survived by his
wife, Bette; two sons, including John
F. Jr. ’70; two daughters, including
Margaret C. “Peggy” May ’76; and
12 grandchildren.
David T. Ripton, M.D.
Jan. 23, 2002
In New York. Dr. Ripton is survived
by his wife, Vivian; four sons; five
daughters; 18 grandchildren; and
six great-grandchildren. His son was
the late Patrick T. ’70.
Francis B. Sullivan
Feb. 13, 2002
In San Diego, Calif. Prior to his
retirement, Mr. Sullivan had been
the director of the probation
department for San Diego County.
An Army veteran of World War II,
he served in Europe, including the
Battle of the Bulge, and attained the
rank of captain. Mr. Sullivan is survived by a brother, Rev. Paul V. ’42;
a sister; and nephews and nieces.
1940
Vincent R. Faucher
Dec. 30, 2001
At his home in Worcester, at 83,
after an illness. During his career,
Mr. Faucher worked 38 years as a
purchasing agent at the American
Steel and Wire Division of the U.S.
Steel Corp., until the Worcester
South Works plant closed in 1978.
He then worked in the purchasing
department of the city of
Worcester, retiring in 1980. Mr.
Faucher had been president and a
Thomas E. Cunningham
Dec. 20, 2001
At the Greenery in Hyannis, Mass.,
at 87. Mr. Cunningham had worked
many years for the Air Force at
Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass.,
retiring in 1974 as the chief civilian
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board member of South Works
Credit Union. An Army veteran of
World War II, he served on the
front lines at Normandy; injured
during the Battle for Mortain, he
was awarded a Purple Heart and
the Bronze Star. Mr. Faucher is survived by his wife, Mary; a son; a
daughter; six grandchildren; three
great-grandchildren; and nephews
and nieces.
Bernard F. “Pete” LaBran
Jan. 23, 2002
In Phoenix, Ariz., at 84. Prior to his
retirement, Mr. LaBran had been an
FBI agent for many years in
Phoenix; he began his career with
the bureau in Spokane, Wash., following the completion of his military service. An officer and paratrooper in the Army during World
War II, Mr. LaBran served in the
South Pacific. He had been a Holy
Cross class agent. Mr. LaBran is
survived by his wife, Hazel; eight
daughters; 21 grandchildren; eight
great-grandchildren; a brother, Rev.
Joseph J., S.J., ’38; a brother-in-law;
and nephews and nieces.
1941
James E.L. Bardsley
Jan. 1, 2002
In Pembroke Pines, Fla., at 82, following a cerebral hemorrhage. Prior
to his retirement in 1981, Mr.
Bardsley had worked 24 years in
the Miami, Fla., office of Dun &
Bradstreet; he began his career as a
financial analyst at Dun & Bradstreet in Connecticut. A Navy Air
Corps veteran from 1941 until
1945, he then joined the reserves,
retiring in 1965 with the rank of
commander. During his career, Mr.
Bardsley had been active in civic
and church affairs. He had been a
member of the President’s Council
at Holy Cross. Mr. Bardsley is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; a son;
two daughters; and two sisters.
Edward A. Brady, M.D.
Dec. 30, 2001
At his home in Harwich Port, Mass.,
at 83, after a long illness. Prior to
his retirement in 1989, Dr. Brady
maintained a urology practice in
New Brunswick, N.J., for 38 years.
During his career, he served as
president of the staff at Middlesex
County Hospital and 28 years as
chief of urology at St. Peter’s
Medical Center; he had also been a
clinical professor of surgery at the
University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey Rutgers
Medical School. In addition, Dr.
Brady had been a fellow for the
American College of Surgeons; a
diplomat of the Board of Urology;
and a seven-year member of the
Middlesex County Community
College board of trustees. He
served as a captain in the Army
Medical Corp from 1943 to 1947.
Dr. Brady is survived by his wife,
Mary; a son; two daughters; a
brother-in-law, Austin W. Keane ’47;
and seven grandchildren.
1942
John L. Ford
Jan. 19, 2002
At his home in Albany, N.Y., at 81,
after a long illness. During his
career, Mr. Ford had been a member of the Character Committee of
the New York State Bar Examiners
and a manager for many years at
Westland Hills Little League. Mr.
Ford is survived by his wife,
Mildred; five sons; two daughters;
five grandchildren; and many
nephews and nieces.
Thomas H. Noonan Sr.
Feb. 12, 2002
In Salem (Mass.) Hospital, at 82,
after a long illnesss. Prior to his
retirement in 1982, Mr. Noonan
worked for more than 40 years in
the family business, M.H. Noonan
Inc., a contracting and demolition
company based in Peabody, Mass.,
and on the North Shore. An Army
veteran of World War II, he served
in the infantry division in the
Southwest Pacific theater of operations. Mr. Noonan is survived by his
wife, Harriette; a son, Thomas H. Jr.
’79; three daughters; seven grandchildren; and many nephews and
nieces.
1943
James J. Dooley
Feb. 6, 2002
In the Franciscan Oaks Health Care
Center, Denville, N.J., at 81. Prior to
his retirement in 1992, Mr. Dooley
had been a partner for many years
in the Paramus, N.J., law firm of
Winne, Dooley & Bole. Previously,
he had served as a municipal attorney in Allendale, Teterboro, Ho-HoKus and Glen Rock, N.J. Mr. Dooley
served in the Army during World
War II. He is survived by his wife,
Margaret; three daughters; and two
brothers.
John T. Hourigan
Jan. 11, 2002
In California, at 80, after a long illness. Prior to his retirement, Mr.
Hourigan had maintained a private
law practice in Delano, Calif., for 50
years; from 1975 to 1983, he had
been employed as legal counsel for
the city of Delano. During World
War II, Mr. Hourigan served as a
lieutenant in the Navy; stationed in
the South Pacific, he had been a PT
boat commander. Mr. Hourigan is
survived by a daughter; a brother;
and many nephews and nieces.
1944
Richard A. Gibson
Feb. 2, 2002
At d’Youville Pavillion, Lewiston,
Maine, at 81, after a long illness.
Prior to his retirement, Mr. Gibson
had been the assistant principal of
Lewiston (Maine) High School.
Previously, he had been employed
by Narragansett Brewery. At the
start of his career, Mr. Gibson had
been a teacher at St. Dominic’s
where he had also coached football,
basketball and baseball. An Army
veteran of World War II, he
received the Silver Star for the
Battle of the Bulge. A halfback on
the Holy Cross football team, Mr.
Gibson played for the Portland
Sagamores semi-pro football team
as its quarterback. He is survived
by his wife, Marion; and a godchild.
1945
Development Commission; and a
member of the board of directors of
the Vernon Housing Authority. Mr.
Russell is survived by his wife,
Nancy; two sons; two daughters;
three sisters; 10 grandchildren; and
many nephews and nieces.
Rev. John R. Bourque
Jan. 1, 2002
In Colorado, at 77. Prior to his
retirement in 1982, Fr. Bourque had
served four years as the pastor of
St. Francis of Assisi Church, North
Adams, Mass.; previously, he had
been the pastor at St. Mary’s
Church, Turner’s Falls, Mass., for
five years. Following his retirement,
he relocated to Cape Cod, Mass.,
where he assisted with weekend
Masses at Christ the King Church
in Mashpee; St. Francis Xavier
Church in Hyannis; and Mother
Seton Church in Falmouth.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1948,
Fr. Bourque began his ministry as
parochial vicar at Holy Name Parish
in Springfield, Mass.; from 1950-53,
he attended Catholic University in
Washington, D.C., and received his
Ph.D. in canon law. After serving as
parochial vicar of Our Lady of the
Rosary Church in Holyoke from
1953 to 1960, he taught religion for
10 years at Cathedral High School
in Springfield. Fr. Bourque then
became pastor of St. Batholomew’s
Church in Bondsville where he
served from 1970 to 1973. In addition to these responsibilities, he
assisted the Puerto Rican immigrants in Holyoke; served as
defender of the bond on the
Diocesan Marriage Tribunal; and
held the post of dean in both the
Franklin and Northern Berkshire
areas. Fr. Bourque is survived by a
sister; and a brother-in-law, John J.
“Jack” Sayers ’49.
1947
Edmund P. “Ned” Dunn
Jan. 4, 2002
In Connecticut, at 79. During his
career, Mr. Dunn owned and operated S. P. Dunn & Company in
West Hartford, Conn., from 1949 to
1990. During World War II, he
served in the Army. Mr. Dunn had
been a Holy Cross class agent. He
is survived by three sons, including
Peter E. ’80; three daughters; two
brothers, including Philip R. ’53; 13
grandchildren; and many nephews
and nieces.
1948
Francis A. Carbone
Jan. 19, 2002
In HealthAlliance Hospital/
Leominster, Mass., at 78, after a
long illness. Prior to his retirement
in 1987, Mr. Carbone taught math
at the former Shaw School in
Leominster. Previously, he had
taught chemistry and biochemistry
at Fitchburg (Mass.) High School
and served 31 years as the city of
Fitchburg’s first science supervisor
for grades K through 12; he had
also been a judge at science fairs
for local schools. Mr. Carbone
began his career as a general science teacher at Boston University in
1951; he later taught chemistry for
two years at Wachusett Regional
High School in Holden, Mass.
Active in various organizations, he
had been a member of the Planning
Committee at Montachusett
Regional Vocational School in
Fitchburg for four years. Ordained
to the permanent diaconate of the
Diocese of Worcester in 1979, Mr.
Carbone served as a deacon at St.
Anthony di Padua Parish, Fitchburg,
from 1979-81; St. Francis of Assisi
Parish, Fitchburg, from 1981-85;
and at Our Lady of Jasna Gora
Parish, Clinton, from 1985 to 1992.
In addition to teaching Confraternity of Christian Doctrine for
30 years with his wife, he was
active in the Pre-Cana program; the
Cana program; the Catholic Family
Movement; and the Spanish and
Asian Apostolates. An Army veteran
of World War II, Mr. Carbone
served as a staff sergeant in the
Euro-African-Middle Eastern theatre; he had been an interpreter for
Italian prisoners of war. Mr.
Carbone is survived by his wife,
Irene; three sons; four daughters; a
brother; two sisters; 19 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and several nephews and nieces.
Leo J. Hession
Jan. 10, 2002
At Lasell House, Newton, Mass., at
77. Prior to his retirement, Mr.
Hession had been a partner in the
Wellesley, Mass., law firm of
Baldwin, Copeland & Hession.
During his career, he had also
served 16 years as town counsel of
Wellesley. A Navy veteran of World
War II, Mr. Hession retired from the
Navy Reserve in 1964 with the rank
of commander. He had been a Holy
Cross class agent. Mr. Hession is
survived by his wife, Jean; three
sons, including Thomas D. ’77; a
daughter; six grandchildren; four
stepchildren; and six step-grandchildren.
1946
George W. Russell
Dec. 27, 2001
At his home in Vernon, Conn., at 77.
During his career, Mr. Russell had
worked many years for Connecticut
Light & Power (CL & P)-Northeast
Utilities, in New Britain, Niantic,
Danielson and Enfield, retiring as
the northern division manager; he
began working for CL & P in
Waterbury after completing a tour
of duty in the Navy following graduation from Holy Cross. Mr. Russell
also served in the Navy during the
Korean War. A 33-year resident of
Vernon, he was the former president and director of the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce; a threeterm member of the Vernon Town
Council; a member of the “Support
our Troops” Committee; former
chairman of the Economic
1949
Anthony W. D’Alessandro
Jan. 3, 2002
In Florida, at 80. During his career,
Mr. D’Alessandro had been a
banker and a retail merchant. A
staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Air
Corps during World War II, he was
awarded the Good Conduct Medal;
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the Air Medal with the three Oak
Leaf Clusters; and the European
African Middle Eastern Theatre
Medal with three Bronze Stars. Mr.
D’Alessandro is survived by his
wife, Rose; two daughters; three
stepsons; and four grandchildren.
Gerald F. Kierce
Jan. 8, 2002
In Florida, at 75. Mr. Kierce had
worked for several investment firms
in New York City, retiring in 1987 as
vice president of Donaldson-LufkinJenrette government and corporate
bond departments. During his
career, he had also been vice president of the bond department of
Chemical Bank and the deputy fiscal agent of Federal Farm Credit
Banks. Mr. Kierce had served with
the 4th Marine Division in World
War II. He was a member of the
President’s Council at Holy Cross.
Mr. Kierce is survived by his wife,
Stella; two sons; a daughter; seven
grandchildren; a brother; and a sister.
1950
Thomas C. Delaney Jr.
Dec. 16, 2001
At Southwest Regional Medical
Center, Fort Myers, Fla. Prior to his
retirement in 1981, Mr. Delaney
had been the president of Delaney
Finance and Delaney Realty in
Rhode Island. He is survived by his
wife, Dorothy; two sons; two daughters; and four grandchildren.
William A. Feeney Sr.
Jan. 24, 2002
At Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center,
Providence, R.I., at 72. Prior to his
retirement in 1996, Mr. Feeney had
served 11 years as the chief protection officer for the state of Rhode
Island Department of Business
Regulations. Previously, he had
worked 12 years as the assistant
director of personnel for the state
of Rhode Island; from 1958 until
1972, he held the position of claims
adjuster for Travelers Insurance.
Active in various organizations, Mr.
Feeney had been a member of the
East Providence Democratic City
Committee; past chairman of
Ward 4; and a member of the East
Providence Juvenile Hearing Board
from 1996 to 2000. A Marine Corps
veteran of the Korean War, he
attained the rank of sergeant. Mr.
Feeney is survived by his wife,
Veronica; three sons; two daughters; and 11 grandchildren.
James J. Larkin
Feb. 3, 2002
In New Jersey, at 75. During his
career, Mr. Larkin had been
employed by Maitra Associates,
New York City, and by Morse
Diesel, also in New York City. He is
survived by his wife, Joan; a brother;
six nephews and nieces; and 13
grandnephews and grandnieces.
Richard E. Wallace Sr.
Jan. 27, 2002
In Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis,
Mass., at 75. Prior to his retirement,
Mr. Wallace had been a selfemployed manufacturing representative in Cleveland, Ohio.
Previously, he had been associated
for many years with Riddell Inc.,
first as a salesman in Boston and
later as a regional salesman in
Pittsfield, Mass.; in 1974, he relocated to Chicago, Ill., where he held
the position of national vice president. A Navy veteran of World War
II, Mr. Wallace attained the rank of
boatswain’s mate second class. He
is survived by a son; six daughters;
14 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and 29 nephews and
nieces.
1951
John J. Farrell
Jan. 21, 2002
At Robert Wood Johnson Medical
Center, New Brunswick, N.J., at 71.
Prior to his retirement in 1992, Mr.
Farrell had been the president of
the International Terminal
Operating Co. in New York City.
During his career, he had been the
past president of the Downtown
Athletic Club, New York, chairman
of the Heisman Trophy Committee;
past president of the General
Stevedoring Council and the
Whitehall Club; a member of the
board of trustees of Seton Hall
Preparatory School, West Orange,
N.J.; a member of the board of
directors of the N.Y. Shipping
Association; and past president of
the U.S.A. Division of the InterCargo Handling Coordination
Association. Mr. Farrell had also
been active with the Boys Club of
America. He had been a member of
the President’s Council at Holy
Cross. An Army veteran, Mr. Farrell
served as a lieutenant in the Korean
War. He is survived by his wife,
Gloria; two sons, including John J.
III ’75; two daughters; a brother;
three sisters; eight grandchildren;
and 47 nephews and nieces.
Edward F. Forzley, D.D.S.
Jan. 3, 2002
In Paoli (Pa.) Hospital, at 74. Prior
to his retirement in 1997, Dr.
Forzley maintained a private dental
practice in Worcester for more than
40 years. During his career, he had
also been a clinical instructor for
many years at the Tufts University
School of Dental Medicine in
Boston. Dr. Forzley is survived by a
son; two daughters; a brother; a sister; four grandchildren; and
nephews and nieces.
1952
William C. Rochford
Jan. 5, 2002
At South Shore Hospital,
Weymouth, Mass., at 74. Prior to
his retirement in 1987, Mr.
Rochford worked 35 years for
NYNEX/New England Telephone.
Beginning in 1964, he also worked
part time at the Richardson-Gaffey
Funeral Home in Scituate, Mass.
During his career, Mr. Rochford had
been the director of many musical
groups, including the South Shore
Men of Harmony and the Sweet
Adeline choruses in Plymouth and
Quincy, Mass.; in addition, he sang
with a quartet called the Chessmen
and directed the Showtime musical
variety series in Weymouth Landing
for many years. Mr. Rochford founded and directed the New England
1952
Melvin G. Massucco Sr.
March 23, 2002
Telephone Bellaires chorus and
directed several church choruses in
Scituate and Norwell, Mass. An
Army veteran, he joined the military
in 1946, serving with the occupation forces in Japan and with
Special Services as an entertainer.
Mr. Rochford is survived by his wife,
Lorraine; two sons; a daughter; a
brother; four sisters; and a granddaughter.
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elvin G. Massucco, star athlete, longtime football coach and
broadcaster, died March 23 in St. Vincent Hospital at
Worcester Medical Center, at 76.
Mr. Massucco began his career by serving two years on the athletic staff at the University of Massachusetts. He then coached at
Holy Cross from 1954 to 1966, serving as freshman football coach;
chief scout for head coach Dr. Eddie Anderson; varsity hockey
coach; freshman basketball coach; varsity lacrosse coach; and head
football coach during his last two seasons. Mr. Massucco had also
been the color analyst for many years on radio broadcasts of the
Holy Cross football games. In 1967, he joined the staff of WPI
where he remained for 28 years, retiring in 1995. In addition to
serving 11 years as head football coach, he taught in the department of physical education; coached the golf team for 16 years; and
held the post of director of intramural athletics.
As a student, Mr. Massucco had been a running back for the
Holy Cross football team, setting the single season and career rushing yardage records; during his last year he was captain of the team,
which attained an 82 record. He earned
All-East and Catholic
All-American honors
and played in the
North-South All-Star
game. Following
graduation, Mr.
Massucco was drafted
by the Chicago
Cardinals of the
National Football
League. He was elected to the Holy Cross
Athletic Hall of Fame
in 1970.
An Army veteran,
Mr. Massucco served
in Italy with the
350th Infantry during World War II; he
also played football
for his unit in
Southern Europe. Previously, Mr. Massucco spent two years in the
South Pacific with the Merchant Marines. In the mid-1940s, he
was named to an All-Service All-Star football team.
Mr. Massucco had been a Holy Cross class agent.
He is survived by his wife, Joan; three sons; a daughter; three
brothers; eight grandchildren; and several nephews and nieces.
1953
Robert A. Blais
June 24, 2001
In Ohio, at 70. During his career,
Mr. Blais worked for many years as
a manufacturer’s representative for
various furniture companies. He is
survived by his wife, Gayle; five children; four stepchildren; and many
grandchildren.
Edward L. Eyerman Jr., M.D.
Dec. 15, 2001
At Mari De Villa Retirement Center
in Missouri, at 69, of complications
from cancer. Prior to his retirement
last year, Dr. Eyerman had maintained a private practice for many
years in St. Louis, Mo., with offices
in Belleville and south St. Louis
County. During his career, he had
served on the staffs of several medical centers, including Memorial
and St. Elizabeth hospitals in
Belleville and St. Mary’s Health
Center in Richmond Heights. After
completing his studies, he began
working in 1964 as an assistant
professor of neurology at the St.
Louis (Mo.) University School of
Medicine. In the 1970s, Dr.
Eyerman co-founded the former
Neuroscanning Associates and
helped to introduce the use of CAT
scans and magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) in treatment. Dr.
Eyerman wrote many papers on
neurological advances and traveled
internationally to deliver speeches;
he also conducted extended
research on multiple sclerosis. Dr.
Eyerman is survived by two sons,
including Edward L. III ’89; a
daughter, Charlotte ’87; and three
brothers, including James D., M.D.,
’69.
Rev. Donald C. Matthews, S.J.
Dec. 18, 2001
At Fordham University, New York
City, at 70. Fr. Matthews taught in
the communications department at
Fordham University from 1969 until
May 2001. Entering the Society of
Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson,
N.Y., on Aug. 14, 1953, he pursued
philosophy studies at Shrub Oak,
N.Y.; he then taught at McQuaid
Jesuit High School in Rochester,
N.Y. and studied philosophy at
Woodstock College in Maryland.
After his ordination to the priesthood in 1963, Fr. Matthews spent
his tertianship in Wales and then
studied at the University of
Southern California where he
received his Ph.D. in communications and film. Fr. Matthews is survived by his brothers, John A. Jr. ’34,
Sanford J., M.D., ’47, and Peter J.
’57; 14 nephews and eight nieces;
and many grandnephews and
grandnieces. His father was the late
John A. Sr., Hon. ’58.
1955
William J. Brennan
Jan. 25, 2002
At UMass Health System-Marlboro
(Mass.) Hospital, at 71, after an illness. Mr. Brennan had maintained a
private law practice in Marlboro
since 1967. Previously, he had been
associated for seven years with the
law firm of Haddad Lynch &
Brennan. During his career, Mr.
Brennan had been the city solicitor
or assistant city solicitor of
Marlboro under seven mayors. An
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Army veteran, he served in the
Korean War, earning the Combat
Infantry Badge. Mr. Brennan is survived by four brothers, including
Leo F. ’42 and Walter C. ’49; three
sisters; and many nephews and
nieces.
Edwin F. Donovan
March 23, 2002
At his home in Indian Rocks Beach,
Fla., of cancer, at 68. Prior to his
retirement in 1996, Mr. Donovan
had been a senior program manager for Electronic Data Systems in
Herndon, Va. Following his graduation from Holy Cross, he served in
the Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant junior grade. Mr. Donovan is
survived by his wife, Pat; a son; a
daughter; a brother; a sister; and
two grandchildren.
Garrett H. Spillane Jr.
Feb. 24, 2002
In Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, at 68. During his career,
Mr. Spillane had maintained a legal
practice in Foxborough, Mass., with
his wife, since 1958. Town moderator of Foxborough for 43 years, he
was elected to this position in 1959
at the age of 25. Mr. Spillaine had
also served one term as the
Massachusetts state representative
from the 9th Norfolk District, from
1960-62. Active in community
affairs, he had been the director of
the Foxboro Federal Savings and
Loan Association since 1965; a
trustee of Sturdy Memorial
Hospital; and a member of the
Norfolk Regional Board of Mental
Health. During the 1960s he was
named an honorary life member of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars for his
services in helping to create the
Foxboro chapter. Mr. Spillaine had
been a Holy Cross class agent and
a member of the President’s
Council at Holy Cross since 1976.
He is survived by his wife, Frances;
two sons, including Francis J. ’84;
two daughters; and seven grandchildren. His son was the late Garrett
H. III ’80 and his daughter was the
late Mary Spillaine Buck ’85.
1956
Rev. Karl E. Dowd Jr.
Feb. 18, 2002
In Fort Pierce, Fla., at 67. Fr. Dowd
had been a priest for 42 years, serving in the Diocese of Manchester,
N.H. Prior to his retirement from
active ministry in June 2000, he had
served as pastor of St. Christopher
Parish in Nashua since 1986; in
1999, he was assigned the pastor of
St. Stanislaus Parish in addition to
his duties at St. Christopher’s.
Previously, Fr. Dowd had been the
pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Salem
from 1975 to 1985 and dean of the
Salem Deanery from 1980 to 1986.
Other assignments include serving
as an associate at St. Catherine
Church in Manchester and St. Mary
Church in Rollinsford; administrator
at St. Joseph Church in Laconia;
pastoral associate at St. Joseph
Church in Nashua; and parochial
vicar at St. Bernard’s Church in
Keene. In addition, Fr. Dowd had
taught at Bishop Bradley High
School in Manchester and St.
Thomas Aquinas High School in
Dover. In 1973, he was appointed
the state prior of Columbian
Squires State Circle of New
Hampshire. Diocesan director of
camping for Camps Fatima and
Bernadette from 1971 to 1990, Fr.
Dowd was awarded the Special
Recognition Award in 1990 by the
American Camping Association for
over 20 years of service. He is survived by a brother; a sister; four
nieces; a great-nephew and a greatniece.
1969
Daniel J. O’Connor Jr.
Dec. 15, 2001
In Georgia, at 67, after an extended
illness. Mr. O’Connor had been
associated with the Atlanta, Ga.,
law firm of King & Spalding since
1962, retiring in 1993 as a senior
partner in the public finance practice. A Navy veteran, he served as a
lieutenant from 1956 to 1959. Mr.
O’Connor had been a Holy Cross
class agent. He is survived by his
wife, Mary; two sons; two daughters; three sisters; and three grandchildren.
Charles N. Egan
Dec. 22, 2001
At his home in Green Bay, Wis., at
54, after a five-year battle with a
brain tumor. Active in business, Mr.
Egan had been a corporate secretary and board member of Little
Rapids (Wis.) Corp. for more than
17 years; during this time he founded the Egan Foundation which
offers financial support to local
community projects. Mr. Egan had
also started several businesses,
including Pro-Drive, a truck driver
training school, and Egan Brewing
Co., a microbrewery in De Pere.
After receiving his law degree from
the University of Wisconsin in 1972,
he served as the first executive secretary of the Wisconsin State Ethics
Board. In 1973, Egan joined the
Milwukee, Wis., law firm of Godfrey
& Kahn; in 1977, he co-founded the
Green Bay law firm of Egan, Laird &
Nellen which he merged with
Godfrey & Kahn. Mr. Egan also
served 12 years as general counsel
for Gold Bond Ice Cream. He is survived by his wife, Annette; a son;
three daughters; his mother-in-law;
five brothers; and three sisters.
1962
Donald J. Holland
Jan. 11, 2002
At his camp at Chateaugay Lake,
New York, at 61. Mr. Holland maintained a private practice in Malone,
N.Y., for many years, specializing in
estate planning and real estate. In
1978, he was appointed by the
Appellate Division of the New York
State Supreme Court, third department, to the Committee on
Character and Fitness of Applicants
for Admission to the Bar for the
Fourth Judicial District. Since 1997,
he chaired the committee that
reviews and considers applicants
for admission to the bar. From 1967
through 1971, Mr. Holland served
as Malone Village attorney; in 1973,
he was elected to the Franklin
County Legislature for District 3,
serving as chair of the Health
Committee. Active in community
affairs, Mr. Holland co-founded a
youth basketball program and held
the post of trustee emeritus of the
Alice Hyde Medical Center; the
Malone Kiwanis selected him as the
recipient of the Kiwanis International Founder’s George F.
Hixson Fellowship. Mr. Holland also
served as a member of the U.S.
Army Reserve, 310th Field Hospital.
He is survived by his wife, Susanne;
two sons; a daughter; a brother;
nephews and nieces; and cousins.
1984
Richard J. Shea
Jan. 20, 2002
At Tippet Home in Needham,
Mass., at 39. Mr. Shea had served
as a vice president with Putnam
Investments in Quincy, Mass.; previously, he had taught Latin at St.
Peter’s Prep School in Jersey City,
N.J. Mr. Shea had been a member
of the President’s Council at Holy
Cross. As an undergraduate, he had
been a recipient of the Rev. Henry
Bean merit scholarship, awarded to
incoming students with distinguished academic records who plan
to major in the classics at Holy
Cross. Mr. Shea is survived by his
father; a brother; a sister; many
uncles and aunts; and cousins.
1964
2005
Leonard P. Callahan
Dec. 23, 2001
At his home in Reading, Mass., at
58, of a rare form of cancer. Mr.
Callahan had most recently worked
for BAE Systems in Merrimack,
N.H., as a systems engineer.
Previous employment included the
Mitre Corp. and Raytheon Co., both
in Bedford, Mass., and Lockheed; at
the start of his career, he had been
employed by the government in
Virginia and Washington, D.C. A
Vietnam veteran, Mr. Callahan
served as an officer in the Navy
from 1964 to 1969. He is survived
by his wife, Louise; two daughters,
including Melissa L. ’92; a brother;
and two grandchildren.
Jonathan R. Duchatellier
May 6, 2002
In St. Vincent Hospital at Worcester
Medical Center, of injuries suffered
in an off-campus assault, at 19. A
first-year student at Holy Cross, Mr.
Duchatellier had been a midshipman in the College Naval ROTC
program. A resident of Atlantic
Highlands, N.J., he had played soccer in high school and volunteered
at the YMCA. Mr. Duchatellier also
tutored children and attended the
First Assembly of God Church in
Shrewsbury, N.J. He was a graduate
of the Marine Academy of Science
and Technology, Sandy Hook, N.J.
Mr. Duchatellier is survived by his
parents; a sister; his maternal
grandmother; and his paternal
grandmother. Memorial contributions may be sent to: The Forgotten
Children of Haiti, c/o M. Leis, treasurer, PO Box 3501, New Hyde Park,
NY 11040. Also, a scholarship has
been established in Mr.
Duchatellier’s memory; donations
may be made to: Jonathan R.
Duchatellier Memorial Fund,
Marine Academy of Science and
1967
John A. Bogosian
Dec. 20, 2001
In New York, at 56. Mr. Bogosian is
survived by a sister.
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Hook, NY 07732.
FRIENDS:
Grandmother of Chandra S.
Ahamed ’00; father of Robert O.
Ball Jr. ’73; mother of Joseph B.
Barnes III ’74; mother of Joan
Bennett, grants and corporate and
foundation giving office; father of
Elizabeth S. Berberich ’00; mother
of James F. Clarkin III ’73 and Jayne
Clarkin Kredatus ’79, mother-in-law
of Eugene G. Kredatus ’78 and
grandmother of Susan E. Clarkin
’98; mother of Robert A. Clifford Jr.
’05; stepfather of Stephen J.
Demanovich ’04; mother of Darlene
DeMarco, physical plant; father of
Antonet deSouza-Goding, chemistry
department; parents of Brenda L.
’76 and grandparents of Kelsey M.
Diederich ’05; mother-in-law of
John J. Driscoll ’65 and grandmother of Erica Driscoll-Ribeiro ’97;
Ronald F. Elkind, lecturer, education
department; wife of Joseph C.
Fleming Jr. ’47; wife of the late
Thomas A. ’37 and mother of
Thomas A. Fulham Jr. ’72, Deborah
W. Fulham-Winston ’74, Nicholas L.
’76 and Gregory J. Fulham ’77; wife
of Robert E. Flynn, M.D., ’50; wife
of Joseph P. Gordon ’47; wife of
Vincent E. Hinson ’47; husband of
Shannon E. Kelly-Wong ’96; wife
and mother of Gerald J. Maher,
D.M.D., ’68 and mother and grandmother of Daniel T. Maher ’97;
daughter of Patrick L. ’63, alumni
office, and sister of Patrick L. Jr. ’86
and Sean M. McCarthy ’87; father
of Kathleen M. Melli ’95; John U.
Monro Hon. ’67; wife of Edward J.
’34, mother of Christopher P. ’67
and Stephen J. ’73, and grandmother of Seana B. O’Connell ’03; father
of Kathleen M. O’Keeffe ’80; wife of
James D. Power III ’53 and mother
of Susan (Power) Curtin ’93; mother of Evelyn Ramos, information
technology services; wife of the late
Frederick J. Reardon ’37; brother of
Susan Selby, Dinand Library; father
of Maura Damiata Silbo ’91; mother-in-law of Anne Tebo, president’s
office; wife of T. Edward Tighe ’74;
wife of Thomas N. ’59 and mother
of Kathleen M. ’83, Cynthia M. ’88
and Deborah A. Troidle ’90; father
of Karen Arsenault Urmson ’85;
wife of Charles H. Valentine ’47;
wife of the late Gordon W. Winslow
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Errata:
In the winter issue of Holy Cross
Magazine, we inadvertently printed
a photograph of Rev. Jeremiah
Donovan, S.J., with the obituary of
Rev. Thomas P. Donovan, S.J. We
apologize for the error.
Road Signs
The Crisis in the Catholic Church
By Rev. Michael McFarland, S.J.
trust in other sectors, in his most recent letter to President’s Council members, which
is excerpted here:
“
The daily newspapers and evening news
broadcasts offer disturbing reports with
disheartening regularity as the sexual
abuse scandal continues to unfold within
the Catholic Church. In the months since
the allegations first were made public,
Catholics in parishes across the country
have reacted viscerally and vocally as
names of victims and perpetrators continue
to be revealed
Members of the Holy Cross community
have grappled with the issues raised by
what many see as a multilayered and farreaching breach of trust. Groups of
Catholic faculty and staff, and students
gathered independently to draft letters in
response to the crisis in the Church to
Worcester Bishop Daniel P. Reilly, asking
him to consider their concerns when he
attends the annual Conference of U.S.
Bishops in Dallas this month. Several
forums and panels on the scandal also were
held on campus; many classes took up the
discussion, and the current crisis in the
Church has been the subject of homilies
and informal dialogues. Holy Cross
President Michael C. McFarland touched
on the crisis in the Church and breaches of
… Certainly the sex abuse scandal
in the Catholic Church, especially
in Boston, has been appalling. As
naive as it seems now, for most of us,
myself included, it was until recently
unimaginable that this kind of behavior
could have gone on and been so widespread. We grieve for the innocent victims who have been traumatized, and in
some cases, had their lives ruined. We
are outraged at the abuse of power and
trust on the part of priests and those
who covered up their behavior and
allowed them to continue to operate
even when they knew them to be dangerous. Those of us who are priests,
even if we have had no direct involvement, feel that we have somehow failed
our people. We also feel that we are
under suspicion in the eyes of some.
The situation in Worcester is not as bad
as Boston, but there have been some
accusations here as well, including the
pastor of Sacred Heart right down the
hill from us, where a number of our students regularly go to Mass.
“The Church has been through
worse crises; and we will work through
this one. If handled appropriately, this
crisis can be a purification that can
make us stronger as a community of
faithful. The first priority must be making sure the victims are cared for and
receive the justice they deserve. That
means cooperating with civil authorities,
where there are accusations of criminal
behavior, and working toward a fair resolution through the courts. Second, it is
essential that all dioceses and institutions have effective policies for screening
and overseeing personnel, responding to
accusations of abuse, and guaranteeing
that anyone who is known to be a threat
is kept away from potential victims.
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This should not be difficult. Many
places already have such policies in
place, and they have worked well since
being instituted. Once the immediate
issues have been addressed, there still
looms a much broader discussion about
authority in the Church, the need for
more openness, and a greater role for
the laity. Given the very strong anger
and distrust this crisis has generated, I
think that discussion is inevitable and
much needed.
“The scandal in the Catholic Church
is not the only misuse of power in cherished institutions. The Enron/Arthur
Andersen fiasco is the most spectacular,
but hardly the only, case where companies have been charged with misleading
their investors and the public on earnings and other vital information. The
host of lawsuits and criminal investigations underway question the integrity
and business practices of some of this
nation’s corporate pillars. Most disturbing of all, of course, is the continued
downward spiral of violence, hatred and
distrust in the Middle East and the
inability of our government, with its
close ties to the combatants, to bring
about any movement toward peace.
“All of this underscores the need for
Holy Cross, where we are developing a
new generation of leaders—leaders who
know how to use power, while understanding that it is not to be used for
selfish purposes, but to protect the
defenseless and promote the common
good. That is what we see as our mission. Fortunately, amid all the grim
news that the media continues to report,
the strength of our community and our
steadfast commitment to honest, constructive dialogue offer great consolation
and hope.
calendar of events
Important Dates:
Gateways Summer Orientation for the Class of 2006:
Session I
June 14 and 15
Session II
June 18 and 19
Session III
June 21 and 22
June 30
Holy Cross Fund Closes.
Aug. 18-30
Odyssey 2006: A Preview of your Holy Cross Journey
An optional orientation program for ALANA (African American, Latino, Asian American and Native
American) and international students
Aug. 31
Arrival of First-Year Students
Mass of the Holy Spirit
Sept. 4
First Day of Class
Sept. 28
Homecoming
Oct. 25-27
Family Weekend
Nov. 2-3
President’s Council for patron and junior members
Nov. 9-10
President’s Council for distinguished, regent and benefactor members
Upcoming Special Events:
Sept. 20-21
First-Year Program (FYP) 10th Anniversary Celebration
Sept. 20: Keynote address by Jill Ker Conway, former president
4 p.m.
of Smith College and first FYP speaker in the fall of 1992
Brooks Concert Hall
Sept. 21: Panel discussions with students and current and former FYP faculty and alumni
Rehm Library in Smith Hall
For more information, please contact Professor Robert Garvey by phone (508-793-2408) or by e-mail
[email protected].
Oct. 18-21
Conference: Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith
Among Christian traditions, Catholicism is particularly notable for its commitment to rituals and
practices as means to teach, live out and embody faith commitment. An international group of distinguished historians, cultural anthropologists, artists and theologians will explore the difference such
practice makes through a series of scholarly presentations, liturgies and live performances.
Sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture
For more information, please contact Pat Hinchliffe by phone (508-793-3869) or
by e-mail [email protected].
Exhibitions:
Sept. 4-Oct. 21
Recollection: A site-specific installation by Lewis deSoto, California- and New York-based
artist and professor of art at San Francisco State University
Presented in conjunction with the conference, “Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and
Contestation in Catholic Faith,” sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
For more information, please call 508-793-3356.
Nov. 20-Dec. 21
Hands and Hearts: Portraits of Friends, Family and Neighbors/Past and Present
by contemporary artists Barry Hazard and Laura Chasman and historical artist
Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848)
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
For more information, please call 508-793-3356.
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Music Events:
Oct. 2
Concert: Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra
Brooks Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Oct. 17
Concert: Holy Cross Chamber Players
Brooks Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Oct. 18
Lecture-Demonstration: Therese Schroeder-Sheker, vocalist and harpist
Chalice of Repose Project
Brooks Concert Hall
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 25
Family Weekend Concert: Holy Cross College Choir
All-Beethoven Concert
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
8 p.m.
Oct. 26
Family Weekend Concert: Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra
Brooks Concert Hall
3 p.m.
Nov. 19
Concert: Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra
Brooks Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Nov. 21
Winter Concert: Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble
Hogan Campus Center Ballroom
8 p.m.
Nov. 22
Concert: Holy Cross Chamber Singers Concert
Brooks Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Dec. 5
Concert: Sarah Grunstein, piano
Brooks Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Dec. 6
Concert: Gamelan Gita Sari
Brooks Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Dec. 11
Concert: Festival of Lessons and Carols
Holy Cross College Choir
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
8 p.m.
Performances:
Nov. 7
Performance: “A Woman in Love”
A one-woman performance on the life of Catherine Doherty, foundress
of Friendship House and the Madonna House Apostolate
Performed by actress Cynthia Donnelly of the Indiana Repertory,
Hartford Stage Company and New York Shakespeare Festival
Sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture
Rehm Library in Smith Hall
7:30 p.m.
Nov. 7-9 & 14-16
The Holy Cross Theatre Department presents:
“Night of the Iguana,” by Tennessee Williams
Fenwick Theatre
Admission: $7 Holy Cross community, $10 general public
Box Office: 508-793-2496
8 p.m.
For more news about upcoming events and for up-to-date information about the campus, please visit the
Holy Cross Web site at:
www.holycross.edu
College dedicates Memorial Plaza to alumni/ae killed on Sept. 11
O
n March 11, Holy Cross dedicated a permanent
memorial to its seven alumni/ae killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. College president, Rev.
Michael C. McFarland, S.J., presided at the liturgy.
The College commissioned the creation of a bronze
plaque on which the seven names are engraved as a per-
manent memorial. The plaque was placed in the new
Memorial Plaza outside of Smith Hall. A fountain, dedicated to Jesuit martyrs, will be added to the plaza in
the future. Following the liturgy, Msgr. Thomas J.
Sullivan ’71 blessed the plaque and Memorial Plaza.

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